Salm-Salm
| County (Principality) of Salm-Salm |
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| Grafschaft (Fürstentum) Salm-Salm | ||||||||||
| State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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| Capital | Badonviller; Senones | |||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages, Modern Age | |||||||||
| • | Partitioned from Salm-Dhaun |
1574 |
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| • | Partitioned to create Salm-Neuweiler |
1608 1574 |
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| • | Raised to principality | 1739 | ||||||||
| • | Annexed by France | 1793 | ||||||||
| • | Granted territories from Münster, with S-Kyrburg, to create unified Salm |
1802–03 |
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| • | Joined the Confederation of the Rhine |
1806 |
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| • | Annexed by France | 1811 1811 | ||||||||
| • | Mediatised to Prussia | 1813 | ||||||||
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The Principality of Salm-Salm was a state of the Holy Roman Empire. It was located in the present-day French départements of the Bas-Rhin and the Vosges and was one of a number of partitions of Salm.
Salm-Salm was created as a partition of Salm-Dhaun in 1574, and was raised from a County to a Principality in 1739 after being inherited and renamed by Count Nicholas Leopold of Salm-Hoogstraten. Salm-Salm was partitioned between itself and Salm-Neuweiler in 1608.
The last territorial partition occurred in 1751, when Salm-Salm reorganized its borders with the Duchy of Lorraine.
In 1790, after the French Revolution, the princes of Salm fled the territory and moved to their castle in Anholt, Westphalia. Salm-Salm then was besieged by the revolutionary army, which blocked food supplies from reaching the state. As a consequence, the population was forced to surrender to France. On March 2, 1793, the French National Convention declared Salm-Salm to be a part of the French Republic and attached it to the Départment of the Vosges. This was recognized by the Holy Roman Empire in the Peace of Lunéville of 1801.
Some years later, in 1802/1803, together with Salm-Kyrburg, the prince of Salm-Salm was granted new territories formerly belonging to the Bishops of Münster (Westphalia). The new territory was governed in union with Salm-Kyrburg and was known as the Principality of Salm.
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