Almanach de Gotha
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The Almanach de Gotha is a directory of Europe's royalty and higher nobility, also including the major governmental, military and diplomatic corps, as well as statistical data by country. First publis
The Almanach de Gotha book, published in 1851
London Library's copy of Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser, 1910.
Almanach de Gotha, published by Justus Perthes (1905)
German mediatisation
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The German mediatisation was the major redistribution and reshaping of territorial holdings that took place between 1802 and 1814 in Germany by means of the subsumption and secularisation of a large n
Almanach de Gotha
…had published from 1785 to 1944. Two volumes have been printed since 1998, with Volume I containing lists of the sovereign, formerly sovereign and mediatised houses of Europe, and a diplomatic and statistical directory; and Volume II containing lists of the non-sovereign princely and ducal houses of Europe…
The prince-bishoprics on the eve of secularisation
The Rhineland in 1789, with the ecclesiastical states shown in purple: The annexation of the left bank of the Rhine by the French Republic set in motion the mediatisation process
Contemporary engraving celebrating the Treaty of Lunéville
Prussia's territorial losses and gains during the period