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Realm · approximate borders · 1486–1791

Principality of Bayreuth

The Franconian Hohenzollern principality 'above the mountains' (Brandenburg-Kulmbach, later Brandenburg-Bayreuth) around Kulmbach, Bayreuth and Hof, separated from Ansbach in 1486. It also had a lower district around Erlangen and Neustadt an der Aisch.

Passed to Prussia with Ansbach in 1791.

See Principality of Bayreuth on the map in 1486

On the map
1486–1791
Capital
Kulmbach (Plassenburg), from 1604 Bayreuth

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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