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Holstein (Hol-shtayn) (Low German: Holsteen, Danish: Holsten, Latin and historical English: Holsatia) is the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, between the rivers Elbe and Eider. The capital of Holstein is Kiel. The city of Hamburg lies directly to the South.
Its name came from the Low German equivalent of Anglo_Saxon Holt-sǣtan = "dwellers in the wood".
Holstein - basically the part of Saxony that was situated north of the river Elbe - was conquered by Charlemagne around the year 800. From 804 it was a sovereign country, under few terms the sovereign family gave up the land, not the style and titles, in 1110. It was from 1111–1474 a County of the Holy Roman Empire, although occupied by Denmark during the early years of the 13th century, and thereafter an Imperial (reichsunmittelbar) Duchy until the dissolution of the Empire in 1806. Since 1460 Holstein was, along with the Danish Duchy of Schleswig, inherited by the Kings of Denmark, who reigned the territories as Dukes (and not as kings). The two duchies were both further divided after they were inherited by the Kings of Denmark, with some parts under the control of the Kings of Denmark, and other parts under the Dukes of Holstein-Gottorp, a cadet line of the family. The Duke of Holstein-Gottorp was forced to give up his lands in Schleswig to the Kings of Denmark following the Great Northern War in 1720, but he moved to Kiel and retained his lands in Holstein until 1773. But the Danes were eager to round out their possessions, especially after the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp became Emperor of Russia in 1762 as Peter III and was planning an attack on Denmark to recover the lost Gottorp lands in Schleswig. Although Peter was soon overthrown by his wife, Catherine the Great, the Danes determined to rid themselves of this problem. In 1773, they exchanged the County of Oldenburg for the Gottorp lands in Holstein, bringing all of Holstein under their control.
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