Upper Bavaria

Upper Bavaria (German: Oberbayern) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany.

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Duchy Of Bavaria - Imperial State
1180 to 1918, the Wittelsbacher were the rulers of Bavaria, as dukes, later as electors and kings ... of Wittelsbach became Otto I, Duke of Bavaria in 1180, the Wittelsbach treasury was rather low ... in contrast to many governments of this time, there was in 1255 a division of the land into Upper Bavaria with the Palatinate and the Nordgau (headquarte ...
Louis V, Duke Of Bavaria - Biography
... in 1347, Louis succeeded him as Duke of Bavaria and Count of Holland and Hainaut together with his five brothers ... In 1349, Bavaria and the Wittelsbach possessions in the Netherlands were partitioned he and his younger brothers Louis VI the Roman and Otto V the Bavarian received ... His brothers Stephen II, William I and Albert I received Lower Bavaria, Holland and Hainaut ...
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor - Early Reign As Duke of Upper Bavaria
... Louis was born in Munich, the son of Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine, and Matilda, a daughter of King Rudolph I ... was partly educated in Vienna and became co-regent of his brother Rudolf I in Upper Bavaria in 1301 with the support of his Habsburg mother Matilda and her brother King Albert I, he quarrelled ... arose when the guardianship over the young Dukes of Lower Bavaria (Henry XIV, Otto IV and Henry XV) was entrusted to Frederick ...
Schönberg, Upper Bavaria
... Schönberg is a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria in Germany ... Towns and municipalities in Mühldorf Ampfing Aschau am Inn Buchbach Egglkofen Erharting Gars Haag in Oberbayern Heldenstein Jettenbach Kirchdorf Kraiburg Lohkirchen Maitenbeth Mettenheim Mühldorf Neumarkt-Sankt Veit Niederbergkirchen Niedertaufkirchen Oberbergkirchen Oberneukirchen Obertaufkirchen Polling Rattenkirchen Rechtmehring Reichertsheim Schönberg Schwindegg Taufkirchen Unterreit Waldkraiburg Zangberg ...
Upper Bavaria - History
... The duchy of Upper Bavaria was created for the first time with the First Bavarian partition in 1255 under duke Louis II but there was no exact correlation between this duchy and the current territory ... After the reunification in 1340 Bavaria was divided again in 1349, and in 1392 the duchies Bavaria-Munich and Bavaria-Ingolstadt were created in Upper Bavaria ... In 1505 Bavaria was permanently reunited ...

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