On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, "W. David Samuelsen" <dsam@wasatch.com> wrote: > Trier was part of old Duchy of Luxembourg for a long time until *1815* > when the Prussians took the Third Partition as the result of the > Congress of Vienna of 1815. Even lots of old maps show Trier in > Luxembourg. *Grand* Duchy of Luxembourg began in 1867. > > I have access to the map book of Luxembourg and so many maps showed > Trier as part of Luxembourg region. > > In fact Luxembourg's territory was much larger before the Austrians, > Spanish, French started chipping away the lands before 1698. Trier was *never* part of any duchy of Luxembourg. In addition to his spiritual authority, the archbishop/elector of Trier was a temporal ruler, ruling over an independent principality that at the end of the 18th century covered some 3,210 square miles, with a population of between 250,000 and 300,000 people. The temporal power of the archbishops was established in 898. The temporal independence of the electorate was abolished by the peace of Luneville in 1801, by which France annexed the territories of Trier on the left (west) bank of the Rhine; the last elector abdicated the following year. The electoral territories on the right (east) bank of the Rhine were secularized and granted to Nassau-Weilburg in 1803. By the first treaty of Paris in 1814, Prussia received nearly the whole of the former territory of the electorate. Michael Palmer --- Michael Palmer Claremont, California mpalmer@netcom.com