Hesse-Cassel, till 1866 a German electorate, now forming the government district of Cassel in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau (q.v.). Area, 3700 sq. m.; pop. (1864) 745,063. The land-graviate of Hesse-Cassel was formed by William IV., eldest son of Philip the Magnanimous, who died in 1567. Constituted an electorate in 1803, it was occupied by the French in 1806, incorporated with Westphalia in 1807, and reconstituted an electorate in 1813. The elector having joined Austria in 1866, Hesse-Cassel was incorporated with Prussia, as part of the province of Hesse-Nassau.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 698
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