Berg, a former duchy of Germany, on the right bank of the Rhine, now incorporated with the Prussian dominions, between Düsseldorf and Cologne. It is a densely populated manufacturing country. After various vicissitudes, the duchy had merged in the electorate of Bavaria, and in 1806 Bavaria ceded it to France. Napoleon erected it into a grand-duchy, constituting his brother-in-law, Murat, its sovereign; and two years afterwards, Napoleon's nephew, then Crown Prince of Holland, was made grand-duke. The peace of 1815 gave Berg to Prussia.
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