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VOGTLAND, or VOIGTLAND

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 172 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VOGTLAND, or VOIGTLAND , a See also:district of See also:Germany, forming the S.W. corner of the See also:kingdom of See also:Saxony, and also embracing parts of the principality of See also:Reuss and of the duchies of See also:Saxe-See also:Altenburg and Saxe-See also:Weimar. It is bounded on the N. by the principalities of Reuss, in the S.E. by Bohemia, and on the S.W. and W. by See also:Bavaria. Its See also:character is generally mountainous, and geologically it belongs to the See also:Erzgebirge range. It is extremely See also:rich in See also:mineral ores—See also:silver, See also:copper, See also:lead and See also:bismuth. The name denoted the See also:country governed for the See also:emperor by a See also:Vogt (See also:bailiff or steward), and was, in the See also:middle ages, known as terra advocatorum. The Vogte are first met with in the country in the loth See also:century, and the See also:office shortly afterwards appears to have become hereditary in the princely See also:line of Reuss. But this See also:house was not in undivided See also:possession, See also:rival claims being raised from See also:time to time; and after being during the middle ages a See also:bone of contention between Bohemia, the burgraves of See also:Nuremberg and the Saxon house of See also:Wettin, it passed gradually to the Wettins, falling by the See also:division of 1485 to the Ernestine See also:branch of the See also:family. The elector See also:Augustus I. made it one of the circles of his dominions. See Limmer, Geschichte See also:des Vogtlandes (See also:Gera, 1825-28, 4 Vols.); See also:Simon, Das Vogtland (See also:Meissen, 1904) ; C. F. Collmann, Das Vogtland See also:im Mittelalter (See also:Greiz, 1892) ; and Metzner, Vogtlandische Wanderungen (See also:Annaberg, 1902).

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