The Counts of Celje (German: Grafen von Cilli; Hungarian: cillei grófok, Slovene: Celjski grofje) or the Counts of Cilli were the most important late medieval noble family on the territory of present-day Slovenia. They managed the County of Cilli.
Risen as vassals of the Habsburg dynasty, at the time the comital house died out they held the rank of immediate counts (Reichsgrafen) and Princes of the Holy Roman Empire as well as many other titles in territories of present-day Central Europe.
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