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Kingdom of Hanover
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Kingdom of Hanover
The
Kingdom of Hanover
was established in October 1814 by the
Congress of Vienna
, with the restoration of
George III
to his Hanoverian territories after the
Napoleonic era
. It succeeded the former
Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg
(known informally as the Electorate of Hanover), and joined with 38 other sovereign states in the
German Confederation
in June 1815. The kingdom was ruled by the
House of Hanover
, a younger branch of the
House of Welf
, in
personal union
with
the United Kingdom
until 1837, before being conquered by
Prussia
in 1866. Hanover became a state of the
German Empire
upon
unification
in January 1871. Briefly revived as the
State of Hanover
in 1946, the state was subsequently merged with some smaller states to form the current state of
Lower Saxony
in
West Germany
, later
Germany
.
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