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Type
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Member State
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Notes
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Anhalt-Bernburg
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Duchy
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Inherited by the Duke of Anhalt-Dessau in 1863
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Anhalt-Dessau
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Duchy
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Anhalt-Köthen
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Duchy
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Inherited by the Duke of Anhalt-Dessau in 1847; merged with Anhalt-Dessau in 1853
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Austria
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Empire
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Only a part that included the Crown of Bohemia – Bohemia, Moravia and Austrian Silesia – and Austrian lands – Austria, Carinthia, Carniola, the Littoral except Istria;[citation needed] the Duchies of Auschwitz and Zator, part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, were also members in 1818-1850
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Baden
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Grand Duchy
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Bavaria
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Kingdom
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Brunswick
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Duchy
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Hanover
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Kingdom
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Annexed by Prussia 20 September 1866
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Hesse
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Electorate
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Also known as Hesse-Kassel; annexed by Prussia 20 September 1866
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Hesse and by Rhein
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Grand Duchy
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Also known as Hesse or Hesse-Darmstadt
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Hesse-Homburg
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Landgraviate
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Joined in 1817; inherited by the grand-duke of Hesse-Darmstadt in March 1866; annexed by Prussia 20 September 1866
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Hohenzollern-Hechingen
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Principality
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Became part of Prussia in 1850
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Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
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Principality
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Became part of Prussia in 1850
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Holstein
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Duchy
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Held by Danish kings in personal union since 15th century as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire; on 28 November 1863, the Federal Assembly removed the Danish delegate pending resolution of the succession issue and the naming of a new delegate from a government recognized by the Assembly; Denmark subsequently ceded it and Sleswig jointly to Austria and Prussia on 30 October 1864 as a result of the Second Schleswig War; the duchy technically remained in the Confederation pending final resolution of its status; Sleswig did not become a member in the short time between this war and the dissolution of the Confederation; both duchies were annexed by Prussia on 24 December 1866
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Liechtenstein
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Principality
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Limburg
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Duchy
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With the Dutch King being the Duke
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Lippe-Detmold
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Principality
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Also known as Lippe
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Luxembourg
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Grand Duchy
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With the Dutch King being the Grand Duke
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Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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Grand Duchy
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Mecklenburg-Strelitz
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Grand Duchy
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Nassau
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Duchy
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Annexed by Prussia 20 September 1866
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Oldenburg
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Grand Duchy
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Prussia
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Kingdom
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The Province of Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Posen were only federal territory in 1848–1850
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Reuss, elder line
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Principality
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Also known as Reuss-Greiz
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Reuss, junior line
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Principality
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Also known as Reuss-Gera
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Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
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Duchy
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Became Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1826
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Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
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Duchy
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Partitioned and became Saxe-Altenburg in 1826
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Saxe-Hildburghausen
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Duchy
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Duchy partitioned and ruler became Duke of Saxe-Altenburg in 1826
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Saxe-Lauenburg
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Duchy
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Held by Denmark since 1815; by the Treaty of Vienna (1864), King Christian IX of Denmark abdicated as duke of Saxe-Lauenburg and ceded the duchy to Prussia and Austria;[1] In September 1865 William I of Prussia acceded as duke in personal union, following the Gastein Convention and a vote of the Estates of Lauenburg[1]
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Saxe-Meiningen
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Duchy
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Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
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Grand Duchy
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Also known as Saxony (1903-1918)
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Saxony
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Kingdom
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Schaumburg-Lippe
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Principality
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Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
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Principality
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Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
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Principality
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Waldeck and Pyrmont
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Principality
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Also known as Waldeck
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Württemberg
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Kingdom
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Bremen
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Free City
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Frankfurt
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Free City
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Annexed by Prussia 20 September 1866
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Hamburg
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Free City
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Lübeck
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Free City
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