What is Saxe-Meiningen?
{{Infobox Former Country |native_name = ''Herzogtum Sachsen-Meiningen'' |conventional_long_name = Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen |common_name = Saxe-Meiningen | era = Middle Ages | status = Vassal |status_text = [[States of the Holy Roman Empire|State]] of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], <br>[[States of the Confederation of the Rhine|State]] of the [[Confederation of the Rhine]], <br>[[States of the German Confederation|State]] of the [[German Confederation]], <br>[[States of the North German Confederation|State]] of the [[North German Confederation]], <br>[[States of the German Empire|State]] of the [[German Empire]], <br>[[States of the Weimar Republic|State]] of the [[Weimar Republic]] | empire = Holy Roman Empire | government_type = Principality | |year_start = 1675 |year_end = 1918 |p1 = Saxe-Gotha |image_p1 = [[File:Sin escudo.svg|20px|Image missing]] |s1 = Thuringia |flag_s1 = Flag of Thuringia (state).svg |event_end = [[German Revolution|Duchy abolished]] |image_flag = Flagge Herzogtum Sachsen-Meiningen.svg |image_coat = Wappen Deutsches Reich - Herzogtum Sachsen-Meiningen-Hildburghausen (Grosses).jpg |image_map = |image_map_caption = Saxe-Meiningen within the German Empire |title_leader = Duke |leader1 = [[Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen|Bernhard I]] |year_leader1 = 1675 – 1706 |leader2 = [[Bernhard III Frederick Wilhelm Albrecht Georg, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen|Bernhard III]] |year_leader2 = 1914 – 18 |capital = Meiningen |national_anthem = ''Vaterlandsgesang der Sachsen-Meininger'' |stat_year1 = 1905 |stat_pop1 = 269000 |stat_area1 = 2468 |event_post = Merged into [[Thuringia]] |date_post = 1920 }} The '''Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen''' was one of the [[Ernestine duchies]]. The dukes were never very important in forming the history of Europe, and unlike their relative in the Duchy of '''Saxe-Coburg and Gotha''' never set out to form a long lasting dynasty. Like all of the German monarchies the duchy became part of the [[Weimar Republic]] after [[World War I]]. In the reshuffle of Ernestine territories after the deat