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A grand duchy is a country or territory whose official head of state or ruler is a monarch bearing the title of grand duke or grand duchess . Prior to the early 1800s, the only Grand duchies in Europe were located in what is now Italy: Tuscany (declared in 1569) and Savoy (in 1696). [1] During the 19th century there were as many as 14 grand ...
List of Baden locomotives and railbuses. Baden as it stood from 1806 to 1945. This list contains an overview of the locomotives of the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway ( Großherzogliche Baden Staatsbahn ), the national railway of the Grand Duchy of Baden, a sovereign state within the German Empire until 1920.
The history of Baden as a state began in the 12th century, as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire. As a fairly inconsequential margraviate that was divided between various branches of the ruling family for much of its history, it gained both status and territory during the Napoleonic era, when it was also raised to the status of grand duchy.
Following the extinction of the Baden-Baden line in 1771, the Baden-Durlach inherited their territories and reunited the Margraviate of Baden. The reunified territory was caught up in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, emerging in 1806 as the Grand Duchy of Baden.
Mother. Princess Louise of Prussia. Frederick II (9 July 1857 – 9 August 1928; German: Großherzog von Baden Friedrich II.) was the last sovereign Grand Duke of Baden, reigning from 1907 until the abolition of the German monarchies in 1918. The Weimar -era state of Baden originated from the area of the Grand Duchy of Baden .
The Grand Duchy of Baden was a state in south-west Germany on the east bank of the Rhine. It existed sovereign between 1806 and 1871 and as part of the German Empire from 1871 until 1918. The duchy's 12th-century origins were as a margraviate that eventually split into two, Baden-Durlach and Baden-Baden, before being reunified in 1771. The territory grew and assumed its "grand" status after ...
The restored Margraviate of Baden was elevated to the status of electorate in 1803. In 1806, the Electorate of Baden, receiving territorial additions, became the Grand Duchy of Baden. The rulers of Baden, known as the House of Baden, were a cadet line of the Swabian House of Zähringen.
