Saxe-Gotha
Duchy of Saxe-Gotha | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1640–1680 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Thuringia, showing the combined territory of Saxe-Gotha and Saxe-Altenburg from 1672, before it was again divided in 1680 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Gotha | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern Europe | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1640 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1644 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1672 | |||||||||||||||||||||
• Partitioned in seven | 1680 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Saxe-Gotha (German: Sachsen-Gotha) was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine branch of the Wettin dynasty in the former Landgraviate of Thuringia. The ducal residence was erected at Gotha.