 the county palatine of the rhine (), later the electoral palatinate (), was a historical territory of the holy roman empire, originally a palatinate administered by a count palatine. its rulers served as prince-electors (kurfÃ¼rsten) from "time immemorial", were noted as such in a papal letter of 1261, and were confirmed as electors by the golden bull of 1356. the fragmented territory stretched from the left bank of the upper rhine, from the hunsrÃ¼ck mountain range in what is today the palatinate region in the german federal state of rhineland-palatinate and the adjacent parts of the french region of alsace (bailiwick of seltz from 1418 to 1766) to the opposite territory on the east bank of the rhine in present-day hesse and baden-wÃ¼rttemberg up to the odenwald range and the southern kraichgau region, containing the capital cities of [[heid
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