Kingdom of Bavaria
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The Kingdom of Bavaria was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871, the
Maximilian von Montgelas
Portrait of Ludwig I by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1826
Aerial view of the Walhalla memorial of Ludwig I
The Crown of Bavaria, Munich Residence
Electorate of Bavaria
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The Electorate of Bavaria was a quasi-independent hereditary electorate of the Holy Roman Empire from 1623 to 1806, when it was succeeded by the Kingdom of Bavaria.
Kingdom of Bavaria
…The Kingdom of Bavaria was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871, the kingdom became a federated state of the…
Maximilian II Emanuel
Charles Theodore
Gallia Protects Bavaria by Marianne Kürzinger (1805), an allegory of the military alliance between Bavaria and Napoleonic France