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Electorate of Saxony
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Electorate of Saxony
The
Electorate of Saxony
(, also ), sometimes referred to as
Upper Saxony
, was a
State
of the
Holy Roman Empire
. It was established when Emperor
Charles IV
raised the
Ascanian
duchy of
Saxe-Wittenberg
to the status of an
Electorate
by the
Golden Bull of 1356
. Upon the extinction of the House of Ascania, it was
enfeoffed
to the
Margraves of Meissen
from the
Wettin dynasty
in 1423, who moved the residence up the
Elbe
river to
Dresden
. After the Empire's dissolution in 1806, the Wettin electors
raised Saxony to a kingdom
.
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