Saxony (Duchy)

LC control no.	n 91034781
Geographic heading	Saxony (Duchy) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
See also	Saxony (Electorate) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Special note	SUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not valid for use as a subject. Works about this place are entered under Saxony (Germany)
Found in	Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony. Copia eines Schreibens welches dero zu Hungarn und Boheimb königl. Maytt. etc. von Ihrer Churfürstl. Durchl. zu Sachsen ... überreichet worden, betreffende die Freystellung des Exercitii Augsp. Confession im Lande Schlesien, 1658: t.p. (not named as duchy) LC database, 04-10-91 (hdg.: Saxony (Duchy)) New encycl. Brit., Micropaedia (Saxony, German Sachsen, French Saxe, the name of several major territories in German hist.; by the early 10th cent. it had emerged as a hereditary duchy; the duke of Saxony was recognized as an imperial elector from the mid-13th cent.; a dispute over this right was settled in 1356)