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Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck

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County of Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck Grafschaft Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck
1639–1811
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Status	State of the Holy Roman Empire, then Client of the First French Empire and State of the Confederation of the Rhine
Capital	Dyck
Government	Principality
Historical era	Napoleonic Wars
• Partitioned from Salm-Reifferscheid	1639 1639
• Joined the Rhine confederation	1806
• AnnexedbyFrance	1811
• MediatisedtoPrussia	1813
Preceded by Succeeded by Salm-Reifferscheid Lippe (department)

Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck was a small imperial county of the Holy Roman Empire. Its territory was the area around Dyck (south-east of Mönchengladbach) in present North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck was a partition of Salm-Reifferscheid, divided between two grandsons of the ruling family in 1649.^[1] It was annexed in 1811 by the First French Empire in the French Revolutionary Wars. The county was mediatised to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1813. Three years later, in 1816, the Head of the family^{[citation needed]} was raised to the title of FürstinPrussia.^[2] When this branch of the Salm family died out in 1888,^[2] the style was assumed by their closest agnatic cousins, PrincesofSalm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim.^{[citation needed]}

The full princely style was Imperial Prince of Salm, DukeofHoogstraten, Forest CountofDhaun and Kyrburg, Rhine CountofStein, LordofDiemeringen and Anholt.^{[citation needed]}

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