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ALTRANSTADT

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 765 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALTRANSTADT , a See also:

village of See also:Germany, in Prussian See also:Saxony near See also:Merseburg (q.v.), with (1900) 813 inhabitants. Altranstadt is famous in See also:history for two See also:treaties concluded here: (1) the See also:peace which See also:Augustus II., See also:king of See also:Poland and elector of Saxony, was forced to ratify, on the 24th of See also:September 1706, with See also:Charles XII. of See also:Sweden, whereby the former renounced the See also:throne of Poland in favour of See also:Stanislaus Leszczynskf—a, treaty which Augustus declared null and void after Charles XII.'s defeat at See also:Poltava (8th of See also:July 1709); (2) the treaty of the 31st of See also:August 1707, by which the See also:emperor See also:Joseph I. guaranteed to Charles XII. religious tolerance and See also:liberty of See also:conscience for the Silesian protestants.

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