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Duchy of Schleswig

1232 – 1866
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South Jutland — a fief of the DANISH crown, not of the Empire, erected as a duchy for Abel, younger son of Valdemar II. From 1460 its dukes were the same men as the counts (later dukes) of Holstein, an 'up ewig ungedeelt' union that welded a Danish fief to a German one and produced the nineteenth century's most notorious diplomatic tangle.

Ceded by Denmark to Austria and Prussia at the Treaty of Vienna, 30 October 1864; annexed by Prussia in 1866 and legally merged into the Province of Schleswig-Holstein. North Schleswig voted to rejoin Denmark in the 1920 plebiscite.

Borders in 1232 · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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