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County of Sayn-Wittgenstein Grafschaft Sayn-Wittgenstein | |||||||||||||||
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| 1384–1607 | |||||||||||||||
 Sayn and Wittgenstein ca. 1450 | |||||||||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||||||
| Capital | Wittgenstein Castle | ||||||||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||||
| 1345 | |||||||||||||||
• Counties merged | 1384 | ||||||||||||||
| 1607 | |||||||||||||||
• Mediatised to Berg | 1808 | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||||||||
Sayn-Wittgenstein was a county of medieval Germany, located in the Sauerland of eastern North Rhine-Westphalia.