Which country was created from the counties of Schellenberg and Vaduz in 1699?
"FC Vaduz Fussball Club Vaduz (""Football Club Vaduz"") is a Liechtenstein football club from Vaduz that plays in the Swiss Football League. The club plays at the national Rheinpark Stadion, which has a capacity of 5,873 when all seated but has additional standing places in the North and South ends of the ground, giving a total stadium capacity of 7,838. They currently play in the Swiss Challenge League following relegation from the Swiss Super League after a poor 2016–17 season. Vaduz is unique in that it represents its own national association in the UEFA Europa League when winning the domestic"
"turned into Chełm Voivodeship. Following the third partition of Poland (1795) the voivodeship was divided between Austria (as part of West Galicia), and Russian Empire. This meant that Chełm Land in its original shape ceased to exist. Currently, historic Chełm Land belongs to three countries - Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. Chełm Land Chełm Land ( or ""Chełmszczyzna"", ) is a historic region (""ziemia"") of eastern Poland and the adjacent areas of present-day Ukraine and Belarus. In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795), Chełm Land was an exclave of the Ruthenian Voivodeship, completely separated from the main part of it by the Bełz"
"the Imperial Diet (""Reichstag""). A seat in the Imperial government would add power, and would be afforded by lands which would be ""immediate"", or held without any feudal personage other than the Holy Roman Emperor himself having rights on the land. The head of the family was able to arrange the purchase from the Hohenems family of the minuscule Lordship of Schellenberg in 1699, and the County of Vaduz in 1712. Schellenberg and Vaduz indeed had no feudal lord other than their comital sovereign and the suzerain Emperor. On 23 January 1719, after the purchase had been made, Charles VI"
"political status required: no feudal lord other than their comital sovereign and the suzerain Emperor. On 23 January 1719, after the lands had been purchased, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, decreed that Vaduz and Schellenberg were united and elevated the newly formed territory to the dignity of ""Fürstentum"" (""principality"") with the name ""Liechtenstein"" in honour of ""[his] true servant, Anton Florian of Liechtenstein"". It was on this date that Liechtenstein became a sovereign member state of the Holy Roman Empire. It is a testament to the pure political expediency of the purchase that the Princes of Liechtenstein never visited their"
"extinction of Waldeck-Landau in 1597 and Waldeck-Wildungen in 1598 Waldeck was reunited under the joint administration of the brothers Christian and Wolrad IV of Waldeck-Eisenberg. In 1607 Waldeck was divided again. Wolrad IV got Eisenberg and Christian got Wildungen thus the branches Eisenberg and Wildungen were once again created In 1625 the county of Bad Pyrmont was inherited from the estate of the county Gleichen. Out of the same estate also came the heredity herrschaft Tonna in Thuringia. This herrschaft was obtained in 1640 of Schenk of Tautenburg. In 1677 the herrschaft Tonna was sold to the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha."
"Diet. Thereby, on 23 January 1719 Emperor Charles VI decreed Vaduz and Schellenberg were henceforth united and raised to the status of a ""Fürstentum"" (principality) under the name ""Liechtenstein"" for ""[his] true servant, Anton Florian von Liechtenstein"". Although the family continued to own larger territories in various parts of central and eastern Europe, it was in right of Liechtenstein's status as an Imperial estate that the family of wealthy noble Austrian courtiers became a dynasty of imperial princes, continuing to dwell in the imperial capital of Vienna or on their larger estates elsewhere, not taking up permanent residence in their"
"of the nearby Habsburg County of Tyrol, decreased, in 1464 the citizens wrote a constitution which was adopted as the rule for the peoples of the local guilds and political positions. The medieval county of Vaduz was formed in 1342 as a small subdivision of the Werdenberg county of the dynasty of Montfort of Vorarlberg. In 1367 the League of God's House (Cadi, Gottes Haus, Ca' di Dio) was founded to resist the rising power of the Bishop of Chur. This was followed by the establishment of the Grey League (Grauer Bund), sometimes called Oberbund, in 1395 in the Upper"
"Romansch, but thereafter German gained ground, and in 1300 an Alemannic population called the Walsers (originating in Valais) entered the region. In the 21st century, the mountain village of Triesenberg still preserves features of Walser dialect. The medieval county of Vaduz was formed in 1342 as a small subdivision of the Werdenberg county of the dynasty of Montfort of Vorarlberg. The 15th century brought three wars and some devastation. The Principality takes its name from the Liechtenstein family, rather than vice versa, and the family in turn takes its name from Liechtenstein Castle in Lower Austria, which it owned from"
"created for Count Palatine John Augustus, who had received the territories around Lützelstein. John Augustus himself died without issue in 1611 and was succeeded by his younger brother Count Palatine George John II of Guttenberg, who renamed the united state Palatinate-Lützelstein-Guttenberg. As he himself left no surviving children upon his death in 1654, his territory fell back to Palatinate-Veldenz. With the Alsace region, the Lützelstein territory was annexed by France according to the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick following the Nine Years' War of the Palatinate Succession, and finally incorporated into the Bas-Rhin département in 1801. Palatinate-Lützelstein Palatinate-Lützelstein was an ephemeral"
"hunger and the Plague. The County of Veldenz-Lützelstein met its end in 1692 with Count Palatine Leopold Ludwig's death, for he had no heir. Now came a dispute over whether the county – and thereby Heinzenhausen along with it – should pass to the Electorate of the Palatinate or the County Palatine of Zweibrücken. At first, the County Palatine of Zweibrücken, which at that time was ruled by Swedish King Karl XI, took ownership of the ""Ämter"" of Veldenz and Lauterecken along with the Remigiusberg, but in 1697, Palatinate troops showed up. The ""Amt"" of Lauterecken, and thereby Heinzenhausen, were"
"of Dillingen, and then again in 1408 between Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg and Fürstenberg-Wolfach. Over the centuries, the various rulers expanded their territories to include the Landgraviate of Baar, the Lordships of Gundelfingen, Hausen, Heiligenberg, Höwen, and Meßkirch, and the Landgraviate of Stühlingen in Germany, as well as domains around Křivoklát Castle (), Bohemia, Tavíkovice (German: ""Taikowitz"") in Moravia and Weitra in Austria. In 1667, Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg was raised to a principality and received a vote at the Reichstag. In 1744, various Fürstenberg territories were reunified to the Principality of Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg, as all lines except one had become extinct. The Rheinbundakte of 1806 dissolved"
"host any embassy. There are, however, a number of honorary consulates in the principality. Most of these are situated in the capital Vaduz, however, some are found in Schaan, Schellenberg and Triesen. The country has an international dispute with the Czech Republic and Slovakia concerning the estates of its princely family in those countries. After World War II, Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, acting to seize what they considered to be German possessions, expropriated the entirety of the Liechtenstein dynasty's hereditary lands and possessions in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia which compose the Czech Republic. The expropriations"
"territory was bought in a feud from the Barons of Brandis, which maintained their sovereignty until 1507, when the county passed to the Counts of Sulz, who acquired the northern and bordering Lordship of Schellenberg. In 1613 both territories, while remaining distinct, were sold to the counts of Hohenems. Ferdinand Karl von Hohenems (1650–1686), for undue appropriation and excessive witch-hunt, was deprived of his dominions in 1684, who returned to the Holy Roman Empire who reassigned them to his brother, the Count Jakob Hannibal (1653–1730). To pay cousin's debts, Hannibal was forced to sell the Lordship (in 1699), and the"
"When the last duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berge died issueless in 1609, the War of the Jülich succession broke out. The lands were finally divided between the Wittelsbach dukes of Palatinate-Neuburg (Jülich and Berge) and the Margraviate of Brandenburg, who gained Cleves with Mark and Ravensberg according to the 1614 Treaty of Xanten. The Hohenzollern margraves thereby got a first foothold in the Rhineland; however, large parts of the Duchy of Cleves were occupied by the United Provinces until the Franco-Dutch War in 1672. Finally incorporated into Brandenburg-Prussia by the Great Elector Frederick William I of Brandenburg in 1666 and part of"
"Principality of Mindelheim Mindelheim was a minor state of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, Germany. It was part of the territory of Rechberg until 1467 when it was made a Lordship for the House of Frundsberg. It was raised to a Barony in 1569, was annexed by Maxelrain in 1586, annexed by Leuchtenberg in 1618, and created a Principality for John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough in 1704 for his service in the War of the Spanish Succession. In recognition of Marlborough's efforts as commander-in-chief of the Grand Alliance's armies Emperor Leopold I proposed in 1704 to make Marlborough a sovereign prince of"
"Imperial diet, the ""Reichstag"". However, since they did not hold any territory that was directly under the Imperial throne, they were unable to meet the primary requirement to qualify. The family yearned for the added power a seat in the Imperial government would bring, and therefore sought to acquire lands that would be ""reichsunmittelbar"", or held without any feudal personage other than the Holy Roman Emperor himself having rights on the land. After some time, the family was able to arrange the purchase of the minuscule ""Herrschaft"" (""Lordship"") of Schellenberg and countship of Vaduz (in 1699 and 1712 respectively) from"
"County of Veldenz and at the same time became the ""Schutzvogt"" over the ""Remigiusland"". A younger line of the Counts of Veldenz, founded about 1270 by Heinrich von Geroldseck, died out in 1444. Count Friedrich III, the last count, never had a male heir. His daughter Anna married King Ruprecht's son Count Palatine Stephan. By uniting his own Palatine holdings with the now otherwise heirless County of Veldenz – his wife had inherited the county, but not her father's title – and by redeeming the hitherto pledged County of Zweibrücken, Stephan founded a new County Palatine, as whose comital residence"
"reaped a rich harvest through hunger and the Plague. The County Palatine of Veldenz-Lützelstein was “orphaned” in 1694 by the last ruling Count Palatine, Leopold Ludwig's death, whereupon a dispute arose as to whether the county – and thereby Lohnweiler too – should pass to Electoral Palatinate or the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken. At first, Zweibrücken, which was then ruled by King of Sweden Karl XI, took ownership of the ""Ämter"" of Veldenz and Lauterecken as well as the Remigiusberg. In 1697, Electoral Palatinate troops showed up, and the ""Amt"" of Lauterecken was now ruled by Electoral Palatinate. The dispute was"
"these titles, which is why the two newly formed principalities of Palatine Simmern and Palatine Zweibrücken were usually described as Counties Palatine and, sometimes, as duchies. When Palatine Zweibrücken was created in 1444, it consisted of the districts of Armsheim, Landsburg, Lauterecken, Burg Lichtenberg, Meisenheim and Veldenz from the County of Veldenz. In 1459, the districts Falkenburg Castle, Guttenberg, Haßloch, Kirkel, Lambsheim, Oggersheim, Wachenheim, Wegelnburg and Zweibrücken from Palatine Simmern were added. An ""Amt"" was an administrative district; an ""Oberamt"" was a larger district, subdivided into ""Unterämter"". Guttenberg, Seltz and Hagenbach and Bischwiller were French fiefs, the others were German."
"County of Wernigerode The County of Wernigerode () was a state of the Holy Roman Empire which arose in the Harzgau region of the former Duchy of Saxony, at the northern foot of the Harz mountain range. The comital residence was at Wernigerode, now part of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The county was ruled by a branch of the House of Stolberg from 1429 until its mediatization to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1806. Nevertheless, the county remained in existence - with one short interruption - until the dissolution of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1918. The counts of Wernigerode had established"
"County of Katzenelnbogen The County of Katzenelnbogen (named after ""Chatti Melibokus"") was an immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire. It existed between 1095 and 1479, when it was inherited by the Landgraves of Hesse. The estate comprised two separate territories. The main parts were the original ""Untergrafschaft"" (""lower county"") with its capital at Katzenelnbogen in the Middle Rhine area and the ""Obergrafschaft"" (""upper county"") south of the Main River around Darmstadt, predecessor of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt. One Diether I (""circa"" 1065–95) of ""Katzenelnbogen"" (literally ""cat's elbow""), then serving as ""Vogt"" of Prüm Abbey, was first mentioned about 1070"
"In 1444, the County of Veldenz met its end when Count Friedrich III of Veldenz died without a male heir. His daughter Anna wed King Ruprecht's son Count Palatine Stephan. By uniting his own Palatine holdings with the now otherwise heirless County of Veldenz – his wife had inherited the county, but not her father's title – and by redeeming the hitherto pledged County of Zweibrücken, Stephan founded a new County Palatine, as whose comital residence he chose the town of Zweibrücken: the County Palatine – later Duchy – of Palatinate-Zweibrücken. Rammelsbach now found itself in this state. In 1552,"
"sell the city and half the County of Lützelstein to Lorraine. After the death of George John I, Anna Maria of Sweden ruled the county as regent. After the division of Palatinate-Veldenz in 1598, the County of Lützelstein was passed to John Augustus, Count Palatine of Lützelstein. John Augustus himself died without issue in 1611 and was succeeded by his younger brother Count Palatine George John II of Guttenberg, who renamed the united state Palatinate-Lützelstein-Guttenberg. As he himself left no surviving children upon his death in 1654, his territory fell back to Palatinate-Veldenz. After Leopold Louis, Count Palatine of Veldenz"
"also titular Princes of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, but they never ruled the principality. Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg was a county and later a principality in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the historical territory of Heiligenberg. It was created as a partition of Fürstenberg-Baar in 1559, and it suffered one partition between itself and Fürstenberg-Donaueschingen in 1617. When Herman Egon of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg was elevated to the estate of imperial princes (""Reichsfürstenstand"") in 1664, Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg was raised to a principality and existed as an imperially immediate territory. It inherited Fürstenberg-Donaueschingen in 1698, but following the extinction of its branch in 1716, it was inherited by Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg."
"so the entire county was passed to the Electoral Palatinate in 1462. During the partition of the House of Wittelsbach territories in 1533, Lützelstein county was passed to the Palatinate-Zweibrücken. Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken gave it to Ruprecht, Count Palatine of Veldenz, his uncle. George John I, Count Palatine of Veldenz attempted to develop his Alsatian territories as the focus of his state, which led to him building the city of Pfalzburg in 1570 and populating it with Protestant refugees from the Duchy of Lorraine. The project was so grand and unaffordable that in 1583 he was forced to"
"Mittelberg Mittelberg is a municipality in the district of Bregenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. The municipality of Mittelberg is congruent with the Kleinwalsertal, a valley that is only accessible by road from Germany. Although it is not an exclave in strict sense (it is contiguous with the rest of Austria), its geographic position created a special situation. For instance, it has both Austrian and German postal codes. Since 1891 Kleinwalsertal enjoyed a customs union with Germany, a free border, and used the Deutsche Mark. Since Austria joined the European Union in 1995, the signing of the Schengen Agreement"
"Governorate of Livonia The Governorate of Livonia (; ; , after the Latvian inhabited Vidzeme region; ) was one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire, now divided between the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Estonia. After the capitulation of Estonia and Livonia in 1710, on July 28, 1713 Peter the Great created the Riga Governorate () which also included Smolensk Uyezd, Dorogobuzh Uyezd, Roslavl Uyezd and Vyazma Uyezd of Smolensk Governorate. Smolensk Province was created from territory in Smolensk Governorate at that time. It was incorporated into Smolensk Governorate when it was reformed in 1726. Sweden"
"1112, Count Gerlach I had, with the founding of the County of Veldenz, among other things, taken over the protection of the ""Remigiusland"", which thenceforth belonged to the Veldenz ""Oberamt"" of Lichtenberg. In 1444, Count Palatine Stephan had founded the County Palatine of Zweibrücken, to which the whole County of Veldenz, along with the ""Oberamt"" of Lichtenberg, belonged. Listed in the 1480 document was every village in the ""Oberamt"", including Blaubach, which then belonged to the Pfeffelbach ""Amt"" or the Diedelkopf ""Amt"" (""Unteramt""). The 1480 roll also gives a clue as to Blaubach's population: it listed four families with roughly"
"under Count Gerlach I in 1112, the passing over the centuries of this county and also the later County of Palatinate-Veldenz, the founding of the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken (originally a County Palatine) by Count Palatine Stephan in 1444. This new County Palatine arose from Stephan's own Electorate of the Palatinate holdings, the older County of Veldenz, which his wife Anna, as the last Count's daughter, had inherited on her father's death (but she could not, as a woman, inherit the comital title) and the County of Zweibrücken, a pledge on which Stephan had to redeem. He named his new state"
"the Congress of Vienna in 1815, some parts of it were returned to the last Duke, King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, who joined them with other former territories on the left bank of the Rhine to form the ""Rheinkreis"", later the Rhenish Palatinate. The principality was conceived in 1444 and realized in 1453 by a partition of the County Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken, which had been created in 1410 for Stephen, the third surviving son of Count Palatine Rupert III. In 1444, Stephen inherited the County of Veldenz from his father-in-law, Count Frederick III of Veldenz. This enabled him to"
"substantial territory along the Alpine Rhine. His son was Hugo I of Montfort (d. 1228), whose son Rudolf I is considered the founder of the Werdenberg line. Rudolf's sons Hugo I of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg and Hartmann I of Werdenberg divided the southern territory of the Montfort inheritance, establishing the two lines of ""Werdenberg-Heiligenberg"" and ""Werdenberg-Sargans"". In 1308 Werdenberg was further divided into Werdenberg-Heiligenberg (Linzgau) and Werdenberg-Werdenberg. The Vaduz line of Counts of Werdenberg died out in 1406 and Vaduz passed to the Barons of Brandis. The family fractured further into a number of cadet branches. The line of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg-Sigmaringen-Trochtelfingen remained influential"
"Philip Louis' grandson Philip William became Elector Palatine in 1685, with the Bergish capital becoming the seat of the Electorate of the Palatinate, until the line inherited Bavaria in 1777. In 1701, the Margrave-Electors of Brandenburg became Kings in Prussia; with Cleves-Mark as their first possession in western Germany, it was the seed of the future Prussian Rhineland. United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg Jülich-Cleves-Berg was the name of two former territories across the modern German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the modern Dutch province of Gelderland. From 1521 to 1666, the territory was a combination of states in personal union, all"
"the Habsburgs. The inhabitants of the country refused, however, to recognise the counts of Werdenberg-Sargans as their lords and, in 1436, made a treaty with the city of Zürich. In the Old Zürich War, a civil war between Zürich and the cantons of Glarus and Schwyz, the counts allied themselves with the opponents of Zürich. Schwyz and Glarus conquered the county and forced the population to carry out, for the count von Werdenberg-Sargans, the Oath of Loyalty. In 1458, the counts renewed their association with Schwyz and Glarus. Nevertheless, the ""Eidgenossen"" kept Walenstadt, Nidberg and Quarten, which they had conquered"