The district duchy, also known as the district principality, was a type of the state under the patrimonial system, such as duchy or principality, formed in the feudal system, as a result of land partition between the members of a royal family.[1] It occurred in the Middle Ages and early modern period, notably in Europe, in states such as the Holy Roman Empire,[2] Duchy of Poland,[1][3] and Kievan Rus'.[4]
Holy Roman Empire
Bavaria
Mecklenburg
Palatinate
- Palatinate-Birkenfeld
- Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler
- Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen
- Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken
- Palatinate-Kleeburg
- Palatinate-Landsberg
- Palatinate-Lautern
- Palatinate-Mosbach
- Palatinate-Mosbach-Neumarkt
- Palatinate-Neuburg
- Palatinate-Neumarkt
- Palatinate-Simmern
- Palatinate-Simmern and Zweibrücken
- Palatinate-Simmern-Kaiserslautern
- Palatinate-Simmern-Sponheim
- Palatinate-Sulzbach
- Palatinate-Sulzbach-Hilpoltstein
- Palatinate-Zweibrücken
- Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
- Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Vohenstrauss-Parkstein
Pomerania
Saxony and Thuringia
Poland
Original division
- Seniorate Province (later reformed into the Duchy of Kraków)
- Duchy of Greater Poland
- Duchy of Sandomierz
- Duchy of Masovia
- Duchy of Silesia
Greater Poland
Masovia
Kuyavia
Silesia
Others
- Duchy of Wiślica (from the Duchy of Sandomierz)
Pomerelia
References
- 1 2 "Rozbicie dzielnicowe". encyklopedia.pwn.pl (in Polish).
- ↑ Kyra T. Inachin, Die Geschichte Pommerns, Hinstorff Rostock, 2008, p. 30, ISBN 978-3-356-01044-2.
- ↑ Jerzy Wyrozumski: Historia Polski do roku 1505, pp. 104–111
- ↑ Tadeusz Manteuffel: Historia powszechna. Średniowiecze. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1990, p. 250. ISBN 83-01-08685-8.
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