Saxe-Meiningen

[ saks-mahy-ning-uhn ]

noun

1. a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.

Example Sentences

HILDBURGHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, situated in a wide and fruitful valley on the river Werra, 19 m.

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In 1683 it became the capital of a principality which in 1826 was united to Saxe-Meiningen.

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We spent the hour in the garden of the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and then along the parapet we strolled in search of tea.

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Separate treaties of peace had been signed with W�rttemberg on the 13th, with Baden on the 17th and with Bavaria on the 22nd of August; treaties with Hesse-Darmstadt Aggrandizement of Prussia. followed on the 3rd of September, with Saxe-Meiningen on the 8th of October and with Saxony on the 21st.

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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.

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