County of Sponheim-Sayn Grafschaft Sponheim-Sayn |
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Capital | Not specified | |||
Government | Principality | |||
Historical era | Middle Ages | |||
- Partitioned from Sponheim-Eberstein |
1261 | |||
- Partitioned in twain | 1283 |
Sponheim-Sayn was a County of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was created as a partition of Sponheim-Eberstein in 1261, and it comprised the lands of the former County of Sayn. In 1283, it was divided into Sayn and Sayn-Homburg.