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Left: Arms of Bergins (from around 1225), who ruled the Duchy of Berg last Right: Coat of arms of the Duke of Berg
Map of the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle around 1560, Duchy of Berg highlighted in red
Status
Duchy
Capital
Schloss Burg (1101–1280)
Düsseldorf (1280–1815)
Common languages
German
Government
Absolute monarchy
Duke of Berg
• 1360–1380
Wilhelm II (first duke)
• 1809-1813
Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (Grand Duke)
Historical era
Middle Ages
• Emergence from Lotharingia
1101
• Split with County of Mark
1160
• United with County of Jülich
1348
• United with County of Mark and Duchy of Cleves
→
1521
• United with Palatinate-Neuburg and the Electorate of the Palatinate
1609 and 1690
• Awarded to Prussia
9 June 1815
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Lotharingia
Kingdom of Prussia
Berg was a state—originally a county, later a duchy—in the Rhineland of Germany. Its capital was Düsseldorf. It existed as a distinct political entity from the early 12th to the 19th centuries.
The name of the county lives on in the modern geographic term Bergisches Land, often misunderstood as bergiges Land (hilly country).
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