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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 155 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LANDGRAVE (Ger. Landgraf, from See also:Land, " a See also:country" and See also:Graf, "See also:count" ) , a See also:German See also:title of See also:nobility surviving from the times of the See also:Holy See also:Roman See also:Empire. It originally signified a count of more than usual See also:power or dignity, and in some cases implied See also:sovereignty. The title is now rare; it is See also:borne by the former See also:sovereign of See also:Hesse-Homburg, now incorporated in See also:Prussia, the heads of the various branches of the See also:house of Hesse, and by a See also:branch of the See also:family of See also:Furstenberg. In other cases the title of landgrave is borne by German sovereigns as a subsidiary title; e.g. the See also:grand-See also:duke of See also:Saxe-See also:Weimar is landgrave of Thuringia.

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