Reuss

Reuss (German: Reu?) was the name of several historical states located in present-day Thuringia, Germany. Its rulers, the Reuss family, named every male born within it Heinrich (Henry) for centuries. The head of each branch of the family bore the title F?rst (Prince).

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Several different principalities of the House of Reuss which had previously existed had by the time of the formation of the German Confederation become part of the two remaining lines (the Elder and the Younger Lines). Before then, they had been part first of the Holy Roman Empire, and then the Confederation of the Rhine.

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Thuringia: The Free State of Thuringia (German: Freistaat Th?ringen) lies in central Germany and is among the smaller of the country's sixteen Bundesl?nder (federal states), with an area of 16,200 km? and 2.45 million inhabitants. The capital is Erfurt....

German Confederation: The German Confederation (German: Deutscher Bund) was a loose association of Central European states created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to organize the surviving states of the Holy Roman Empire, which had been abolished in 1806....