Principality of Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen

State · 1820–1870 CE · at its largest around 1820 CE

A small Thuringian principality ruled by a branch of the House of Schwarzburg, which remained a member state of the German Empire until 1918.

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.
• Gotha (c. 1836 CE): Capital of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1836–1839).

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