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The Landgraviate of BurgundyLandgrafschaft Burgund (German)
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Demonym(s)	Burgundian, Transjuran
Preceded by Succeeded by Kingdom of Arles Upper Burgundy Old Swiss Confederacy Electorate of Trier
Today part of	Switzerland

From the 13th to 15th centuries, the Landgraviate of Burgundy encompassed the areas stretching from the Aare river and Thun to Aarwangen. The holders of the office of Landgrave were first the Counts of Buchegg, the Kyburg family, the Bishops of Trier and other, minor nobles before the office was transferred to the city of Bern after their extinction. In historical documents and reports on the state, the name Little Burgundy / Klein Burgund ( Latin Burgundia minor ) was also used for the Landgraviate of Burgundy, which had been invented in the 16th century by Aegidius Tschudi, but which did not represent a contemporary medieval term.

The reasoning for it being called Transjurania is due to the state's location and history of being a "continuation" of the Kingdom of Arles in their Transjurania county.

Sources

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1. Anne-Marie Dubler: The Oberaargau region. Origin, concept and extent over time . In: Yearbook of the Oberaargau . Volume 44 . Merkur Druck, Langenthal 2001, p. 74–114 ( digital copy at digibern.ch “The name of the Landgraviate is ‘Burgundy’; not a single documentary source gives a different name. The almost ineradicable term ‘Little Burgundy’, even if actively used by well-known historians such as Richard Feller, is incorrect.” Note 11, p. 111).
2. Adolf Gasser : The territorial development of the Swiss Confederation 1291–1797. Sauerländer, Aarau 1932, pp. 62–64, 67.