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Prince of the Empire: any ruling Prince whose territory is a member of the Holy Roman Empire (not only German-speaking countries, but also many bordering and extensive neighbouring regions) and entitled to a voting seat (or in a collective voting unit, such as a Grafenbank) in the Imperial Diet.
The Holy Roman Empire, [f] also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. [16] It developed in the Early Middle Ages , and lasted for a millennium until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars .
1207: HRE Prince of the Empire; imperial immediacy 1270: Acquired Neuravensburg 1401: Lost Appenzell 1415: Lost City of St Gall 1451: Protectorate of the Swiss Confederation 1468: Acquired Toggenburg 1648: Left the Empire as part of Switzerland (except Neuravensburg) 1803: Neuravensburg to Dietrichstein: St Gall (St Gallen) Imperial City Swab SW
Empire Empire population as percentage of world population [41] Year [41] Qing dynasty: 37 1800: Northern Song dynasty: 33 1100: Western Han dynasty: 32 1: Mongol Empire: 31 1290: Roman Empire: 30 150: Jin dynasty (266–420) 28 280: Ming dynasty: 28 1600: Qin dynasty: 24 220 BC: Mughal Empire: 24 1700: Tang dynasty: 23 900: Delhi Sultanate: 23 ...
1648: Left the Empire as part of Switzerland: Appenzell Innerrhoden (Appenzell Inner Rhodes) Canton — — 1597: Partitioned from Appenzell 1648: Left the Empire as part of Switzerland: Are (Ahr) County — — 992: First mentioned in the Ahrgau 1107: Imperial immediacy 1144: Partitioned into Are-Are, Are-Nürburg and Are-Hochstaden: Are-Are ...
1236: HRE Prince of the Empire; Imperial immediacy 1648: Secularized as Principality for Mecklenburg-Schwerin: Ratzeburg: Principality Low Sax PR 1648: Ratzeburg secularised and given to Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1701: To Mecklenburg-Strelitz: Ravensberg: 1180: County Low Rhen n/a 1170: Renamed from Calvelage; fief of Saxony 1180: Imperial immediacy
A map of the Imperial Circles as in 1560. Unencircled territories appear in white. When the Imperial Circles (Latin: Circuli imperii; German: Reichskreise) — comprising a regional grouping of territories of the Holy Roman Empire — were created as part of the Imperial Reform at the 1500 Diet of Augsburg, many Imperial territories remained unencircled.
In 1527, before the Holy Roman Empire fought the Protestants, troops loyal to Emperor Charles V brutally sacked Rome and imprisoned Pope Clement VII, as a side effect of battles over the Papal States. [39] Thus Clement VII was forced to give up Parma, Modena, and several smaller territories.