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HOLSTEIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 618 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOLSTEIN  , formerly a duchy of

Germany . Until about Trio the county of Holstein formed
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part of the duchy of Saxony, and it was made a duchy in 1472 . From 146o to 1864 it was ruled by members of the house of
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Oldenburg, some of whom were also kings of Denmark . It is now the
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southern part of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein . (See SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, and for
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history SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION .

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