County (Principality) of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Grafschaft (Fürstentum) Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (German) | |||||||||
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.svg) Schwarzburg-Sondershausen within the German Empire | |||||||||
 Schwarzburg-Sondershausen within Thuringia | |||||||||
| 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 | Sondershausen | ||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||
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• 1697–1716 | Anton Günther II (first) | ||||||||
• 1909–1918 | Günther Victor (last) | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
| 1599 | |||||||||
• Raised to Principality | 1697 | ||||||||
| 1918 | |||||||||
• Merged into Thuringia | 1920 | ||||||||
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Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was a small principality in Germany, in the present day state of Thuringia, with its capital at Sondershausen.