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County of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein Grafschaft Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein | |||||||||
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| 1657–1806 | |||||||||
 Coat of arms
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| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Laasphe | ||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Partitioned from S-W-Wittgenstein | 1657 | ||||||||
• Raised to principality | 1801 | ||||||||
• Mediatised to Hesse | 1806 | ||||||||
• Annexed by Prussia | 1816 | ||||||||
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Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein was a county and later principality between Hesse-Darmstadt and Westphalia.