{"slug": "meissen", "label": "Meissen", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissen", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8738", "qid": "Q8738", "description": "town in Meissen District, Saxony, Germany", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [928, 1445], "span_label": ["928 CE", "1445 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "henry-the-fowler", "label": "Henry the Fowler", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "holy-roman-empire", "label": "Holy Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aachen", "label": "Aachen", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "magdeburg", "label": "Magdeburg", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "regensburg", "label": "Regensburg", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bolesaw-i-the-brave", "label": "Bolesław I the Brave", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "east-francia", "label": "East Francia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thuringia", "label": "Thuringia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "saxony", "label": "Saxony", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "siege", "label": "Siege", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "elbe", "label": "Elbe", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 928, "year_label": "928 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Winter – King Henry I (the Fowler) subdues the Polabian Slavs who live on the eastern borders. He then marches against the Slavic Hevelli tribes and seizes their capital, Brandenburg. Henry invades the Glomacze lands in the middle Elbe valley, where he besieges and destroys the main castle called Gana (the later Albrechtsburg) at Meissen (Saxony).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364916804#Europe", "title": "928", "revid": 1364916804, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 929, "year_label": "929 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Early 929 – Siege of Gana: German king Henry the Fowler besieges Gana with an East Frankish army and conquers the stronghold. He establishes the fort of Meissen nearby.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367671440#Europe", "title": "929", "revid": 1367671440, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1000, "year_label": "1000 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "In continental Europe, the Holy Roman Empire established itself as the most powerful state. The Holy Roman Emperor Otto III made a pilgrimage from Rome to Aachen and Gniezno (Gnesen), stopping at Regensburg, Meissen, Magdeburg, and Gniezno. The Congress of Gniezno (with Bolesław I the Brave) was part of his pilgrimage. In Rome, he built the basilica of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, to host the relics of St. Bartholomew.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373370885#Christendom", "title": "AD 1000", "revid": 1373370885, "section": "Events › Christendom"}}, {"year": 1046, "year_label": "1046 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Eido II (or Egidius), bishop of Meissen (or 1045)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350130059#Deaths", "title": "1046", "revid": 1350130059, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1117, "year_label": "1117 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 9", "text": "December 9 – Gertrude of Brunswick, margravine of Meissen", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361694426#Deaths", "title": "1117", "revid": 1361694426, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1140, "year_label": "1140 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Hedwig, margravine of Meissen (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367307539#Births", "title": "1140", "revid": 1367307539, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1203, "year_label": "1203 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March", "text": "March – Hedwig, margravine of Meissen (b. 1140)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369187440#Deaths", "title": "1203", "revid": 1369187440, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1445, "year_label": "1445 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 26", "text": "September 26 – Negotiations between the Saxon brothers Frederick and William on the division of Thuringia break down after Frederick asserts that he will claim western Thuringia and will only allow William to inherit the Margraviate of Meissen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370372937#July–September", "title": "1445", "revid": 1370372937, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}