Saxe-Altenburg

[ saks-ahl-tn-burg ]

noun

1. a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.

Example Sentences

His “Ottomania” works include a masked and bejeweled Amalie of Württemberg, the Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg, which Mr. Uklanski based on a 19th-century work by Ludwig Doell.

From New York Times

A third Hermsdorf is a village in Saxe-Altenburg, where porcelain is made.

From Project Gutenberg

Political Divisions.—The empire is composed of the following twenty-six states and divisions: the kingdoms of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and W�rttemberg; the grand-duchies of Baden, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Oldenburg and Saxe-Weimar; the duchies of Anhalt, Brunswick, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Saxe-Meiningen; the principalities of Lippe-Detmold, Reuss-Greiz, Reuss-Schleiz, Schaumburg-Lippe, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and Waldeck-Pyrmont; the free towns of Bremen, Hamburg and L�beck, and the imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine.

From Project Gutenberg

In February 1843 he had married Marie, daughter of Joseph, duke of Saxe-Altenburg, by whom he left a son and two daughters.

From Project Gutenberg

Stephan emigration had also decoyed a number of inhabitants from Saxe-Altenburg.

From Project Gutenberg