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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 765 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALTRANSTADT  , a

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village of
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Germany, in Prussian
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Saxony near
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Merseburg (q.v.), with (1900) 813 inhabitants . Altranstadt is famous in
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history for two
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treaties concluded here: (1) the
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peace which
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Augustus II.,
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king of
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Poland and elector of Saxony, was forced to ratify, on the 24th of
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September 1706, with
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Charles XII. of
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Sweden, whereby the former renounced the
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throne of Poland in favour of
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Stanislaus Leszczynskf—a, treaty which Augustus declared null and void after Charles XII.'s defeat at
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Poltava (8th of
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July 1709); (2) the treaty of the 31st of
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August 1707, by which the
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emperor
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Joseph I. guaranteed to Charles XII. religious tolerance and
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liberty of
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conscience for the Silesian protestants .

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