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Facts

Location Denmark • Eider River • Germany
Participants Austria • Denmark • Holstein • Prussia • Schleswig
Context Napoleonic Wars

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Map showing Schleswig-Holstein and surrounding regions after the Seven Weeks' War in 1866. Schleswig and Holstein are highlighted, with boundaries from 1866 marked, and neighboring areas labeled as Prussia, Denmark, and other German states. Current international boundaries and major cities such as Kiel, Lubeck, and Hamburg are indicated.
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Otto von Bismarck in military uniform and cap, with a mustache, facing slightly to the side in a black-and-white portrait taken around 1880.
Otto von Bismarck
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Frederick VII
Frederick VII
king of Denmark
Carl Christian Hall, detail of an oil painting by J.V. Gertner, 1864; in Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark
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Knud Kristensen
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Christian IX
Christian IX
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