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Grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Grand Duchy of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Großherzogtum Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1815–1918
Flag Coat of arms
The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1910.
Capital Schwerin
Languages East Pomeranian German, Polabian
Government Constitutional monarchy
Grand Duke
 •  1815–1837 Frederick Francis I
 •  1837–1842 Paul Frederick
 •  1842–1883 Frederick Francis II
 •  1883–1897 Frederick Francis III
 •  1897–1918 Frederick Francis IV
History
 •  Congress of Vienna 14 June 1815
 •  German Revolution 14 November 1918
Area
 •  1910 13,127 km² (5,068 sq mi)
Population
 •  1910 est. 639,958 
     Density 48.8 /km²  (126.3 /sq mi)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Today part of  Germany

The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was a territory in Northern Germany held by the House of Mecklenburg residing at Schwerin. It was a sovereign member state of the German Confederation and became a federated state of the North German Confederation and finally of the German Empire in 1871.

Like its predecessor, the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the Schwerin lands upon the incorporation of the extinct Duchy of Mecklenburg-Güstrow in 1701 comprised the larger central and western parts of the historic Mecklenburg region. The smaller southeastern part was held by the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz branch of the grand ducal house, who also ruled over the lands of the former Bishopric of Ratzeburg in the far northwest.

The grand duchy was bounded by the Baltic coast in the north and the Prussian province of Pomerania in the northeast, where the border with the Hither Pomeranian (formerly Swedish Pomeranian) region ran along the Recknitz river, the Peene, and Kummerower See. In the south it bordered with the Prussian province of Brandenburg (with the exclaves of Rossow and Schönberg near ) and in the southwest with the Amt Neuhaus district held by the Kingdom of Hanover, which was incorporated into the Prussian province of Hanover after the Austro-Prussian War in 1866. Likewise in the west, the Duchy of Holstein was incorporated into the Schleswig-Holstein Province, after which Mecklenburg was almost entirely surrounded by Prussian territory.


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