The New International Encyclopædia/Westphalia, Kingdom of

​WESTPHALIA, Kingdom of. A kingdom created by Napoleon in August, 1807, for his brother Jerome Bonaparte. It was constituted out of part of the territories given up by Prussia in the Treaty of Tilsit and of the dominions of the Elector of Hesse-Cassel and the Duke of Brunswick. It had an area of about 15,000 square miles and a population of about 2,000,000. The kingdom came to an end in 1813, after the defeat of Napoleon at Leipzig.

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