Kingdom of Westphalia

State · 1809–1813 CE · at its largest around 1809 CE

A Napoleonic kingdom in northwestern Germany ruled by Jérôme Bonaparte from Kassel, dissolved after Napoleon's defeat at Leipzig in 1813.

On its lands while it lasted

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 CE – 1832 CE): German poet, playwright, novelist and scientist who lived in Weimar from 1775. Author of Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Grimms' Fairy Tales (1812 CE): Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of their collection of German folk tales in 1812 while living in Kassel.