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Province of Saxony

The Province of Saxony has been a prussian Province from the Napoleonic Wars 1815 until 1947. It is - together with the much smaller former state of Anhalt and some small exclaves of Brunswick - one of the predecessors of the now existing German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. Capital was Magdeburg The Province of Saxony was one of the richest regions of Prussia with highly developed agriculture and industry.