Electorate of the Palatinate

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the Electorate of the Palatinate

  1. (historical) The County Palatinate of the Rhine, a historical state in the Holy Roman Empire, during the period when its count palatinate was an elector of the Holy Roman Empire (1356–1803).

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The region was ruled in personal union and partially conflated with Bavaria after 1777.

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