Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen Herzogtum Sachsen-Meiningen | |||||||||
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1675–1918 | |||||||||
Anthem: | |||||||||
Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire, State of the Confederation of the Rhine, State of the German Confederation, State of the North German Confederation, State of the German Empire, State of the Weimar Republic | ||||||||
Capital | Meiningen | ||||||||
Government | Principality | ||||||||
Duke | |||||||||
• 1675 – 1706 | Bernhard I | ||||||||
• 1914 – 18 | Bernhard III | ||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• | 1675 | ||||||||
• | 1918 | ||||||||
• Merged into Thuringia | 1920 | ||||||||
Area | |||||||||
1905 | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1905 | 269000 | ||||||||
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The Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen was one of the Ernestine duchies.
The dukes were never very important in forming the history of Europe, and unlike their relative in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha never set out to form a long lasting dynasty.
Like all of the German monarchies the duchy became part of the Weimar Republic after World War I.