Middle Franconia - Brief History

Brief History

See also: Principality of Ansbach See also: Imperial City of Nuremberg

The area, previously composed of independent principalities within the Holy Roman Empire, became a district of the Kingdom of Bavaria in Napoleonic times at the start of the 19th century. It gained its current name in 1838.

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