Polity Orange Principality

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Was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment

  • January 1164: The Orange Principality was constituted in 1163, when Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I elevated the Burgundian County of Orange (consisting of the city of Orange and the land surrounding it) to a sovereign principality within the Empire.

Chronology

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Disestablishment

  • January 1714: Orange was finally ceded to France in 1713 under the Treaty of Utrecht.