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HistoryExcept for Saxony, the middle and smaller states were not much changed in their territories. Some of them actually received new lands ( Bavaria gained some land in the north, and Hanover acquired East Friesland). In general, the pattern worked out by Napoleon in the first years of the century was maintained. There were no more imperial knights, and hundreds of the minor princes were mediatized. No ecclesiastical territories remained and only four free cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lubeck, and Frankfurt). prev next |