Anhalt-Zerbst
Anhalt-Zerbst was a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts Potsdam-Mittelmark (Brandenburg) and Wittenberg, the city of Dessau and the districts of Köthen, Schönebeck and Jerichower Land.
Key facts
- District DE.name
- Anhalt-Zerbst
- District DE.state
- Saxony-Anhalt
- District DE.dissolved
- 2007-07-01
- District DE.capital
- Zerbst
- District DE.area
- 1225
- District DE.population
- 79,500
- District DE.population_as_of
- 1999
- District DE.carsign
- AZE
- District DE.url
- http://www.anhalt-zerbst.de
- District DE.map
- Lage des Landkreises Anhalt-Zerbst in Deutschland.png
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Anhalt-Zerbst was a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts Potsdam-Mittelmark (Brandenburg) and Wittenberg, the city of Dessau and the districts of Köthen, Schönebeck and Jerichower Land.
== History == While Zerbst is a small town today, together with Dessau it was one of the two central cities of Anhalt. When the state of Anhalt was dissolved in 1603, one of the successor states was the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst. It was a small state with almost no political power. In 1793 the line of the princes became extinct, and Anhalt-Zerbst was annexed by the neighbouring principality of Anhalt-Dessau.