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Extract from the Coburg Travel Guides:
A hugely imposing little town with a truly illustrious history and a mixed Franconian-Thuringian pedigree,
COBURG
lies about 50km northwest of Kulmbach. Following several changes of aristocratic ownership, it came into the hands of the powerful House of Wettin in 1353, and was initially regarded by them as a Saxon outpost within Franconia. In 1586, it was raised to the status of capital of one of the dynasty's splintered Saxon-Thuringian territories, the new Duchy of Saxe-Coburg. The ruling house proved to be masterly at self-promotion, particularly in the nineteenth century, when its clever dynastic marriage policy created ties with t...
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