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Principality of Lippe

drawn on the map 1806–1870

A small northwestern county (raised to a principality in 1789), seat Detmold. It is historically associated with the Teutoburg Forest (site of the Varus disaster) and later erected the colossal Hermann Monument.

Shown on the map
1806–1870
Peak area
805 km²
Region
Europe

Overview

A small northwestern county (raised to a principality in 1789), seat Detmold. It is historically associated with the Teutoburg Forest (site of the Varus disaster) and later erected the colossal Hermann Monument. It survived as a federal state into the 20th century.

Common questions

What was the Principality of Lippe?
A small northwestern county (raised to a principality in 1789), seat Detmold. It is historically associated with the Teutoburg Forest (site of the Varus disaster) and later erected the colossal Hermann Monument.
When is the Principality of Lippe shown on the map?
The border data draws the Principality of Lippe 1806–1870. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
How large was the Principality of Lippe?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Principality of Lippe covered about 1,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, German History in Documents and Images, national institutions such as the Swiss Federal Council and the National Museum of Denmark, and the scholarship of Peter H. Wilson and Joachim Whaley on the Holy Roman Empire. The article this entry is anchored on:

This entry was last updated .

This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made

Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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