County of Wied

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The County of Wied was a small territorial state of the Holy Roman Empire located along the middle Rhine in what is now western Germany.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
County of Wied canonical 1
County of Wied-Runkel 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf county
state of the Holy Roman Empire
capital Neuwied
coatOfArms Arms of the House of Wied
continent Europe
country Holy Roman Empire
currency Rhenish guilder
dissolvedOrAbolished 1806
endTime 1806
followedBy Principality of Wied
governmentForm county within the Holy Roman Empire
hasBorderWith County of Isenburg
County of Sayn
Electorate of Cologne
Electorate of Trier
hasCapital Neuwied
hasTitle Count of Wied
hasType former state
languageUsed German
locatedIn Middle Rhine
linked to: Mittelrhein

Rhineland
western Germany
locatedOn right bank of the Rhine
memberOf Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire
namedAfter River Wied
nobleFamily House of Wied
partiallyLocatedIn present-day North Rhine-Westphalia
present-day Rhineland-Palatinate
partOf Upper Rhenish Circle
precededBy Lordship of Wied
religion Calvinism
Lutheranism
Roman Catholicism
rulingFamily House of Wied
significantEvent partition into Wied-Neuwied and Wied-Runkel
sovereigntyLostTo Duchy of Nassau
Kingdom of Prussia
linked to: Prussia
startTime 12th century
status immediate territory of the Holy Roman Empire

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Isenburg-Wied hasSuccessorState County of Wied-Runkel
linked to: County of Wied