Grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
| Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
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| Großherzogtum Mecklenburg-Schwerin | ||||||||||
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.svg) The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1910.
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| 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) | |||||||||
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| Today part of |
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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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