Saxony

Saxony was a kingdom of Germany, located within the basin of the Elbe, facing on the East, between Bavaria (South) and Prussia (North), the mountainous frontier of Bohemia. It was a little less in size than Yorkshire, but very densely inhabited. It spurred of the Erzgebirge, Fichtelgebirge, and Riesengebirge diversified the surface. It was a flourishing mining and manufacturing country. Dresden was the capital, and other important towns were Leipzig, Chemnitz, and Freiburg. The government was vested in the king and two legislative chambers. It is represented in the Reichstag and Reichsrath of the empire. By the time of the Thirty Years' War the electorate of Saxony, which in its heyday had stretched to the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Elbe, had sadly dwindled away. It suffered much at the hands of Frederick the Great during the Seven Years' War, and in 1815, having sided with Napoleon, a portion of its territory was, by the Congress of Vienna, ceded to Prussia. It was defeated along with Austria in 1866, and thus joined the North German Confederation, to be incorporated afterwards in the new German Empire.

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