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Saxe-Meiningen

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[saks-mahy-ning-uhn] / ˈsæksˈmaɪ nɪŋ ən /

noun

  1. a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.


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His creations scared the crap out of groundlings and aristocrats alike, including the Queen of Denmark and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2019

Finally in 1951, at 38, he married Germany's Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen.

From Time Magazine Archive

After ascending the throne, he lived in the Teddington palace with his queen, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.

From Time Magazine Archive

To Archduke Otto von Habsburg, 52, scholarly pretender to the Austrian throne until 1961, when he renounced his claim; and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 39: their seventh child, second son; in Munich.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1553 he became physician to the count of Henneberg, Saxe-Meiningen, and in 1558 held the same post with the elector-palatine, Otto Heinrich, being at the same time professor of medicine at Heidelberg.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

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