Electorate of Saxony

The Electorate of Saxony (German: Kurfürstentum Sachsen) or Duchy of Upper Saxony was an independent hereditary electorate of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356 to 1806. It was the successor state of the Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg, and was itself replaced in Napoleonic times by the Kingdom of Saxony (1806). After the dissolution of the medieval Duchy of Saxony, the name Saxony was first applied to a small part of the duchy situated on the Elbe around ... more
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