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| | New Catholic Dictionary: Bamberg, Bavaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | In 1802 Bavaria seized the prince-bishopric, then measuring 1,276 square miles with a population of 207,000, from the last prince-bishop, Franz von Buseck, and secularization was accomplished in 1803, the territory passing to the Elector of Bavaria. |
 | | By the terms of the Concordat between Rome and Bavaria, 1817, the present Archdiocese of Bamberg was erected. |
 | | Besides the cathedral built by Saint Otto and completed in its present Romanesque form in the 13th century, there are the 11th-century basilica of Saint James, the 12th-century abbey-church of Saint Michael, and the palace of the prince-bishops built in 1695 by Lothair Franz. |
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