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Diez

Also known as Dietz

Diez is a small town on the Lahn in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Seat of the medieval counts of Diez, it passed to the House of Nassau and from 1606 was the residence of the counts, later princes, of Nassau-Diez, ancestors of the Dutch royal house. Above the town stand its medieval castle and the baroque Oranienstein Palace.

Mentioned in 3 state histories

Lupaca KingdomCounty of Nassau-DillenburgPrincipality of Nassau-Diez

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