Upper Saxon Circle

The Upper Saxon Circle (German: Obersächsischer Reichskreis) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire, created in 1512.The circle was dominated by the electorate of Saxony (the circle's director) and the electorate of Brandenburg.It further comprised the Saxon Ernestine duchies and Pomerania.The Lusatias that fell to Saxony by the 1635 Peace of Prague were never encircled.The circle was made up of the following states:
The Upper Saxon Circle at the end of the 16th century
GermanImperial CircleHoly Roman Empireelectorate of SaxonyBrandenburgErnestine duchiesPomeraniaLusatiasPeace of PragueAnhaltPrincipalityDuchy of SaxonyHouse of AscaniaAnhalt-DessauAnhalt-BernburgAnhalt-KöthenAnhalt-ZerbstCountyImperial immediacySaxe-WeissenfelsHouse of WettinElectorateMargraviatePrince-electorCamminPomeranianBishopricGernrodeAbbacyImperial abbeyOtto IHatzfeld-GleichenHohnsteinScharzfeldLauterbergBrunswick-GrubenhagenKlettenbergLordshipHalberstadtBrunswick-WolfenbüttelMansfeldHenry IVHouse of GriffinsdividedSwedish PomeraniaFarther PomeraniaBrandenburg-PrussiaQuedlinburgQuerfurtElder LineJunior LineSaxonySaxe-WittenbergSaxe-WeimarErnestine duchySaxe-AltenburgSaxe-GothaSaxe-Gotha-AltenburgSaxe-CoburgSaxe-Coburg-SaalfeldSaxe-MeiningenSaxe-Eisenachpersonal unionSchönburgSchwarzburgHouse of SchwarzburgSchwarzburg-RudolstadtSchwarzburg-SondershausenStolbergStolberg-StolbergStolberg-RosslaWalkenriedWernigerodeStolberg-WernigerodePrussianElectoratesEcclesiasticalSecularBernburgDessauKöthenZerbstFurtherHitherJuniorRudolstadtSondershausenPrelatesQuedlinburg AbbeyWalkenried AbbeyCountsSchönburg (Saale)RosslaBavarianSwabianUpper RhenishLower Rhenish–WestphalianFranconian(Lower) SaxonAustrianBurgundianElectoral RhenishUnencircled territoriesCirclesImperial ReformWestphalian (Lower Rhenish-Westphalian)Lower SaxonTerritories of the Holy Roman Empire outside the Imperial Circles