Note: The area of Palatine in western Germany took its name from the title of its medieval lords, the counts Palatine, princes who were among the primary secular leaders of the Holy Roman Empire. The name Palatine is generally used to refer to two geographically separate regions, the Lower and the Upper Palatinate. The Lower Palatinate occupied both banks of the mid-Rhine between its Neckar and Main tributaries. Today it is mostly part of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The Upper Palatinate was located in northern Bavaria on both sides of the Naab river, stretching to the east as far as the Bohemian forest. Generally boundaries and political condition of the entire Palatinate
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