Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Großherzogtum Mecklenburg-Strelitz (German) | |||||||||
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| 1815–1918 | |||||||||
Map of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (yellow) | |||||||||
| Status | State of the German Confederation (1815–48) State of the German Empire (1848-49) independet state (1849-1850) State of the German Confederation (1850–66) State of the North German Confederation (1867–71) Federal State of the German Empire (1871–1918) | ||||||||
| Capital | Neustrelitz | ||||||||
| Common languages | German, Low German | ||||||||
| Religion | Mecklenburg-Strelitz State Church | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Grand Duke | |||||||||
• 1815–1816 | Charles II | ||||||||
• 1816–1860 | George | ||||||||
• 1860–1904 | Frederick William | ||||||||
• 1904–1914 | Adolphus Frederick V | ||||||||
• 1914–1918 | Adolphus Frederick VI | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Raised to Grand Duchy | 1815 | ||||||||
| 1918 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a territory in Northern Germany, held by the younger line of the House of Mecklenburg residing in Neustrelitz. Like the neighbouring Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, it was a sovereign member state of the German Confederation and became a federated state of the North German Confederation and finally of the German Empire upon the unification in 1871. After World War I and the German Revolution of 1918–19 it was succeeded by the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.