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Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg Herzogtum Sachsen-Altenburg | |||||||||
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1602 – 1672 1672 – 1825* 1826 – 1918 1918 – 1920† | |||||||||
Anthem: | |||||||||
Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire, State of the German Confederation, State of the North German Confederation, State of the German Empire, State of the Weimar Republic | ||||||||
Capital | Altenburg | ||||||||
Government | Principality | ||||||||
Duke | |||||||||
• 1603 – 13 | Christian II, Elector of Saxony (regent for John Philip) | ||||||||
• 1669 – 72 | John George II, Elector of Saxony (regent for Frederick William III) | ||||||||
• 1826 – 34 | Frederick | ||||||||
• 1908 – 18 | Ernst II | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• | July 7, 1602 1602 | ||||||||
1672 – 1825 | |||||||||
• Ernestine duchies rearranged, duchy restored | November 12, 1826 | ||||||||
• | November 1918 1918 | ||||||||
• Merger of Thuringia‡ | 1920 | ||||||||
Area | |||||||||
1905 | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1905 | 207000 | ||||||||
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* See Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg † As Free State of Saxe-Altenburg ‡ In 1920, the ex-Imperial states of Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and the two principalities of Reuß all merged to form the free state of Thuringia. |
Saxe-Altenburg (German: Sachsen-Altenburg) was one of the Ernestine duchies of the House of Wettin.Altenburg was independent for most of the 1600s until 1672. This is when the last male ruler died. Because only men could rule the Ernestine duchies Altenburg began to be ruled by the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, who had married the last ruler’s daughter.