Westphalia

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Westfalen
Westphalia
Conventional short name:
Local: Westfalen
English: Westphalia
CAPTION
National motto: THE MOTTO!
Area: AREA
Cities:  
 Capital: Münster
 Largest: Dortmund
 Other: OTHER CITIES
Currency: 1 Reichsthaler=12 Kreuzer/Neugroschen=240 Pfennig
Established: 1807, Napoleon's Decree
Languages:  
 Official: German
 Others: Daitsch, Limburgs, Emisc
Population: POPULATION ADJECTIVE
RULER: NAME
Organizations: Holy Roman Empire
Arms of Westphalia

Westphalia has been attributed to several entities over the centuries, but today’s Westphalia is roughly the land between the Ruhr, Rhine and Weser rivers. Westphalia began as a duchy of Saxony, but was later made its own duchy by the Emperor Barbarossa in 1180, although the Duchy of Westphalia was only a small area south of the Lippe river, and drastically smaller than today’s area.

Westphalia became a kingdom in 1807, and remained so for the next six years, as a vassal state under Napoleon. Westphalia is today a largely industrial area, with mostly industrial exports.

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Member Entities
Anhalt | Baden | Bavaria | Bremen | Brunswick | Hamborg | Hannover | Hesse | Lippe | Luebeck | Luxemburg | Mecklenburg | Oldenburg | Premaria | Prussia | Rhineland-Palatinate | Saarland | Saxony | Schleswig-Holstein | Thuringia | Waldeck-Pyrmont | Westphalia | Wuerttemberg
Colony: Rickerman-Insel