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Braunschweig (Duchy)

LC control no.n 85116957
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Geographic headingBraunschweig (Duchy)
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Variant(s)Brunswick (Duchy)
Braunschweig-Lüneburg (Duchy)
See alsoLüneburg (Principality)
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Wolfenbüttel (Principality)
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Braunschweig (Germany : State)
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Special noteSUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not valid for use as a subject. Works about this place are entered under Braunschweig (Germany : State).
Found inIts Die Lehnbücher der Herzöge von Braunschweig von 1318 und 1344/65, 1982: t.p. (Braunschweig) p. 3 (... des Herzogtums Braunschweig in den ersten beiden Dritteln des 14. Jahrhunderts; als 1235 das Herzogtum Braunschweig-Lüneburg errichtet war ...)
LC manual authority cd. (Brunswick) auth. cd. for principality Wolfenbüttel (the duchy Braunschweig-Lüneburg, created in 1235, had, at most, a theoretical existence in 16th and 17th cent. [for details see n85-182353; as an aid in determining entry for publications, read as necessary in Sante, G.W. Geschichte der deutschen Länder; lists of dynasties and rulers and other statments about existence or disappearance of a particular entity are not reliable])
Brockhaus (under Braunschweig: Herzogtum [Duchy] Braunschweig-Lüneburg comprised territory taken from Heinrich d. Löwen and returned in 1235 to Otto d. Kind as one duchy; in the 13th cent. the duchy was split into Fürstentum [Principality] Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and Fürstentum [Principality] Lüneburg)
Pollmann, K.E. Die braunschweigische Verfassung von 1832, 1982: p. 49 (... des Herzogtums Braunschweig; by 1832 Braunschweig again constituted a duchy and had a constitution)
Brockhaus Enzyklop. (Braunschweig; German duchy until 1918; state until 1946 when it was incorporated into the state of Niedersachsen)
Encyc. Americana (Brunswick; German duchy; joined German Empire in 1871, became state in 1918)
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Invalid LCCNn 81107326