Baden-Durlach

historical margravate, Germany

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division of Baden margravate

  • Baden
    In Baden

    …Baden-Baden in the south and Baden-Durlach in the north. Both margravates became Protestant during the Reformation, but Baden-Baden returned to Roman Catholicism in the 1570s. The dynastic rivalry between the two margravates further weakened them vis-à-vis neighbouring German states. Baden was terribly devastated during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), and…

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