ALTRANSTADT
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V01,
Page 765
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ALTRANSTADT
, a See also:village of See also:Germany, in Prussian See also:Saxony near See also:Merseburg (q.v.), with (1900) 813 inhabitants
.
Altranstadt is famous in See also:history for two See also:treaties concluded here: (1) the See also:peace which See also:Augustus II., See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Poland and elector of Saxony, was forced to ratify, on the 24th of See also:September 1706, with See also:Charles XII. of See also:Sweden, whereby the former renounced the See also:throne of Poland in favour of See also:Stanislaus Leszczynskf—a, treaty which Augustus declared null and void after Charles XII.'s defeat at See also:Poltava (8th of See also:July 1709); (2) the treaty of the 31st of See also:August 1707, by which the See also:emperor See also:Joseph I. guaranteed to Charles XII. religious tolerance and See also:liberty of See also:conscience for the Silesian protestants
.
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