Principality of Lichtenberg Fürstentum Lichtenberg | |||||||||
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| 1815–1834 | |||||||||
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 Principality of Lichtenberg (in green) | |||||||||
| Capital | Sankt Wendel | ||||||||
| Common languages | German | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Prince | |||||||||
• 1815-1834 | Ernst | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 1815 | |||||||||
• sold to Prussia | 1834 | ||||||||
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The Principality of Lichtenberg (German: Fürstentum Lichtenberg) on the Nahe River was an exclave of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld from 1816 to 1826 and the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1826 to 1834, when it was sold to the Kingdom of Prussia.[1] Today its territories lie in two States of Germany: the District of St. Wendel in Saarland and the District of Birkenfeld in Rhineland-Palatinate.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.