Northern Holy Roman Empire

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The Northern Holy Roman Empire refers to the northern territories of the medieval Holy Roman Empire, encompassing various principalities, bishoprics, and free cities in what is now northern Germany.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historicalRegion
borderedBy Baltic Sea
Kingdom of Denmark
linked to: Denmark

Kingdom of Poland
Margraviate of Meissen
North Sea
economicFeature Baltic Sea trade
Hanseatic commerce
North Sea trade
hasPart County of East Frisia
linked to: East Frisia

County of Holstein
County of Oldenburg
Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Duchy of Holstein
Duchy of Mecklenburg
Duchy of Pomerania
Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg
linked to: Saxe-Lauenburg

Duchy of Saxe-Lüneburg
Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg
Duchy of Saxony
Free Imperial City of Bremen
linked to: Free City of Bremen

Free Imperial City of Hamburg
Free Imperial City of Lübeck
Free Imperial City of Magdeburg
Hanseatic League cities
Margraviate of Brandenburg
Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen
Prince-Archbishopric of Hamburg-Bremen
Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim
Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck
Prince-Bishopric of Münster
Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück
Prince-Bishopric of Ratzeburg
Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin
Prince-Bishopric of Verden
historicalContext part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
languageUsed Middle High German
Middle Low German
laterReligion Lutheranism
locatedIn Northern Europe
medieval Germany
present-day northern Germany
partOf Holy Roman Empire
politicalStructure decentralized feudal territories
religion Roman Catholicism
sovereign Holy Roman Emperor
timePeriod High Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages
Middle Ages

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Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck historicalRegion Northern Holy Roman Empire
Otto III, Margrave of Brandenburg sphereOfInfluence North-Eastern Holy Roman Empire
linked to: Northern Holy Roman Empire