THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1505–1796

Free Imperial City of Nuremberg

Nuremberg, a free imperial city from 1219, bought the burgraves' rights in 1427 and won the largest territory of any imperial city (Lauf, Hersbruck, Altdorf) in the Landshut War of Succession in 1504–1505. Prussia occupied its outer districts in 1796; annexed by Bavaria in 1806.

See Free Imperial City of Nuremberg on the map in 1505

On the map
1505–1796
Capital
Nuremberg

Rulers named in the sources

Western and central European states, 430–1956

States of western and central Europe: the Irish kingdoms of Meath, Osraige, Breifne, Thomond, Desmond and Tyrconnell, Pictish Fortriu, the Welsh kingdoms of Dyfed, Ceredigion and Deheubarth, Elmet, the taifas of Málaga, Majorca and Menorca, the prince-bishoprics of Liège and Utrecht, Guelders, Brabant, Namur, Limburg, Luxembourg, Cleves and Jülich, Bar and Provence, the Electoral Palatinate, Mainz, Hesse, the Welf principalities, Württemberg, Baden, Ansbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Meissen, Saxe-Wittenberg, Saxe-Lauenburg, Oldenburg and Pomerania, the Visconti, Gonzaga, Este, Montefeltro and Appiani states, Siena, Lucca and Gaeta, and in the 20th century the four occupation zones of Germany, the Saar Protectorate and the Free Territory of Trieste.

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