* Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen ( Evangelisch-lutherische Kirche des Herzogtums Sachsen-Meiningen )

# The Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen

August Schleicher was born in Meiningen ( Duchy Saxe-Meiningen, southwest of Weimar in the Thuringian Forest ).

In the reshuffle of Ernestine territories that occurred following the extinction of the Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg line upon the death of Duke Frederick IV in 1825, Duke Bernhard II of Saxe-Meiningen received the lands of the former Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen as well as the Saalfeld territory of the former Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld duchy.

: The federal territories comprise Prussia together with Lauenburg, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Saxe-Weimar, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Anhalt, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Waldeck, Reuß senior line, Reußjunior line, Schaumburg-Lippe, Lippe, Lübeck, Bremen, Hamburg, and that part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse that lies to the north of the River Main.

Between 1680 to 1918, it was the capital of the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen.

Breitung, the son of John M. Breitung, a Lutheran minister, was born in the city of Schalkau in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, Germany ( now in Sonneberg District, Thuringia ).

Schönfeld was born at Hildburghausen, in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, where he had a distinguished career at the gymnasium.

In 1868, four districts were established in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen.

Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.

Jacques Callot (; c. 1592 – 1635 ) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine ( an independent state on the North-Eastern border with France, Southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the Southern Netherlands ).

Franche-Comté (; ; Free Countian: Fraintche-Comtè ; ) the former " Free County " of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy, is an administrative region and a traditional province of eastern France.

The Duchy of Carinthia (; ) was a duchy located in southern Austria and parts of northern Slovenia.

The Duchy of Prussia or Ducal Prussia (; ; ; ; Old Prussian: Ercōgista Prūsija ) was a duchy in the eastern part of Prussia from 1525 – 1701.

Holstein once existed as the County of Holstein (; 811 – 1474 ), the later Duchy of Holstein (; 1474 – 1866 ), and was the northernmost territory of the Holy Roman Empire.

The Duchy of Warsaw (; ; ; ) was a Polish state established by Napoleon I in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia under the terms of the Treaties of Tilsit.

The Grand Duchy of Posen (; ), was part of the Kingdom of Prussia, created from territories annexed by Prussia after the Partitions of Poland, and formally established following the Napoleonic Wars in 1815.

Styria (; ), also Slovenian Styria or Lower Styria, is a traditional region in northeastern Slovenia, comprising the southern third of the former Duchy of Styria.

The Duchy of Livonia (; ; ; ; also referred to as Polish Livonia or Inflanty ) was a territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania – and later the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth – that existed from 1561 to 1621.

Archduke of Austria-Este (; ), or Habsburg-Este (), is a title and surname used by several cadet branches of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine to denote a connection with the extinct Italian princely and feudal family of Este and the Duchy of Modena ruled by them.

The Duchy of Jülich (; ; ) comprised a state within the Holy Roman Empire from the 11th to the 18th centuries.

Austrian Silesia (; ; ), officially the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia (; ) was an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Austrian Empire, from 1867 a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary.

Abensberg then lost its independence and became a part of the Duchy of Bavaria, and from then on was administered by a ducal official, the so-called caretaker.

With the death of the last Count, Nicholas of Abensberg, in 1485, the estates fell to the Duchy of Bavaria-Munich, meaning that henceforth only the Bavarian coat of arms was ever used.

For want of funds, Alexander was unable to resist the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights or prevent Grand Duke of Muscovy Ivan III from ravaging Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the Tatars.

In the 13th century, the Principality of Anhalt was split off from the Duchy, and later, the remaining state was split into Saxe-Lauenburg and Saxe-Wittenberg.

Arnulf was granted the Duchy of Carinthia, a Frankish vassal state and successor of the ancient Principality of Carantania, by his father Carloman, after Carloman had become reconciled with his own father Louis the German and was created King of Bavaria.

With the Lombard invasion of Italy it was annexed to the Duchy of Benevento, until it was finally destroyed by the Byzantines of Constans II in 663, reducing to a small hamlet known as Quintodecimo ( referring to its distance of 15 miles from Benevento ).

After the fall of the Duchy of Athens and the principality of Achaia, the only Latin possessions left on the mainland of Greece were the papal city of Monemvasia, the fortress of Vonitsa, the Messenian stations Coron and Modon, Navarino, the castles of Argos and Nauplia, to which the island of Aegina was subordinate, Lepanto and Pteleon.

1309 – 26 May 1339 ) was the Queen of Poland ( 1333 – 1339 ), and the Princess of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

The viguerie of Barcelonnette ( also comprising Saint-Martin and Entraunes ) was reattached to France in 1713 as part of a territorial exchange with the Duchy of Savoy during the Treaties of Utrecht.

In 1683, the Qing staged an amphibious assault on southern Taiwan, bringing down the rebel Grand Duchy of Tungning, which was founded by the Ming loyalist Koxinga in 1662 after the fall of the Southern Ming, and had served as a base for continued Ming resistance in Southern China.

Attlee was given Mosley's post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Braunschweig ( Brunswick ), in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, now part of Lower Saxony, Germany, as the son of poor working-class parents.

Born in the Duchy of Prussia's capital Königsberg, part of Brandenburg-Prussia, Goldbach was the son of a pastor.

Christian was born about 1180 in the Duchy of Pomerania, possibly in the area of Chociwel ( according to Johannes Voigt ).

Claude Louis Berthollet was born in Talloires, near Annecy, then part of the Duchy of Savoy, in 1749.

Guidobaldo I, who was heirless, called Francesco Maria at his court, and named him as heir of the Duchy of Urbino in 1504, this through the intercession of Julius II.

The Duchy of Aquitaine was the largest and richest province of France ; Poitou ( where Eleanor spent most of her childhood ) and Aquitaine together were almost one-third the size of modern France.

Kraepelin, the son of a civil servant, was born in 1856 in Neustrelitz, in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Germany.

On 26 February 1815, Napoleon abandoned Elba for France, reviving the French Empire for a Hundred Days ; the Allies declared an end to Napoleon's sovereignty over Elba on 25 March 1815, and on 31 March 1815 Elba was ceded to the restored Grand Duchy of Tuscany by the Congress of Vienna.

At the beginning of the 10th century a Duchy of Franconia ( German Herzogtum Franken ) was established within East Francia, which comprised modern Hesse, Palatinate, parts of Baden-Württemberg and most of nowaday's Franconia.