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| | BRIEG - LoveToKnow Article on BRIEG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | From 1311 to 1675 Brieg was the capital of an independent line of dukes, a cadet branch of the Polish dukes of Lower Silesia, by one of whom the castle was built in 1341. |
 | | In 1537 Frederick IL, duke of Liegnitz, Brieg and Wohlau, concluded with Joachim II., elector of Brandenburg, a, treaty according to which his duchy was to pass to the house of Brandenburg in the event of the extinction of his line. |
 | | On the death of George William the last duke in 1675, however, Austria refused to acknowledge the validity of the treaty and annexed the duchies. |
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