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Bible Encyclopedias
Altranstadt
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a village of Germany, in Prussian Saxony near Merseburg, with (1900) 813 inhabitants. Altranstadt is famous in history for two treaties concluded here: (1) the peace which Augustus II., king of Poland and elector of Saxony, was forced to ratify, on the 24th of September 1706, with Charles XII. of Sweden, whereby the former renounced the throne of Poland in favour of Stanislaus Leszczynski - a treaty which Augustus declared null and void after Charles XII.'s defeat at Poltava (8th of July 1709); (2) the treaty of the 31st of August 1707, by which the emperor Joseph I. guaranteed to Charles XII. religious tolerance and liberty of conscience for the Silesian protestants.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Altranstadt'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/altranstadt.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Altranstadt'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/altranstadt.html. 1910.
