Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
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The Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a duchy in northern Germany, it was about the same as the modern rural district of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The duchy also had three exclaves near the town of Fürstenberg and the area around Ratzeburg in modern Schleswig-Holstein.
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Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Herzogtum Mecklenburg-Strelitz | |||||||||
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1701–1815 | |||||||||
Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806) Independent duchy (1806–1808) Member of the Confederation of the Rhine (1808–1813) Independent duchy (1813–1815) | ||||||||
Capital | Strelitz then Neustrelitz | ||||||||
Government | Duchy | ||||||||
Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | |||||||||
• 1701–1708 | Adolphus Frederick II | ||||||||
• 1708–1752 | Adolphus Frederick III | ||||||||
• 1752–1794 | Adolphus Frederick IV | ||||||||
• 1794–1815 | Charles II | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Treaty of Hamburg | 1701 | ||||||||
• Raised to Grand Duchy | 1815 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Germany |
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