Foreign Relations
The Free City of Frankfurt had diplomatic relationships with numerous European states as well as with the United States of America. The states of Baden, Bavaria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Hanover, Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Kassel, Naussau, Austria, Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Sweden and Norway, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the USA and Wurttemberg each had embassies and consulates in Frankfurt. The following states had a common delegation:
- Hohenzollern, Liechtenstein, Waldeck, Reuß, Schaumburg-Lippe and Lippe,
- Mecklenburg,
- Oldenburg, Anhalt and Schwarzburg, along with
- the ducal and grand-ducal Saxon dynasties.
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