City Canton Halle (Saale Department)
| Kingdom of Westphalia | |
|---|---|
| City Canton Halle (Saale Department) | |
| department | Department of the Saale |
| Arrondissement | Hall |
| Capital of the canton | Hall |
| surface | 0.14 square miles |
| Residents | 15201 |
| Villages and hamlets | 1 |
| Cities | 1 |
The city canton of Halle was an administrative unit in the Halle district of the Saale department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The city canton consisted exclusively of the city of Halle , today's independent city in Saxony-Anhalt . Halle was thus the capital of the city canton and seat of the justice of the peace . The canton was inhabited by 15,201 people and had an area of 0.14 square miles . It emerged from the Immediatstadt Halle des Saalkreis of the Duchy of Magdeburg .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Friedrich Justin Bertuch (Ed.): General geographical ephemeris . With charts and copper. Volume six and thirtieth. Publishers of the Landes-Industrie-Comtoir, Weimar 1811, p. 56 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed January 1, 2014]).
- ↑ Royal Decree, which ordered the division of the kingdom into eight departments . List of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): Project Westphalian history . 1807, p. 185 ( online [PDF; 4.9 MB ; accessed on January 1, 2014]).
- ↑ Handbook on the Kingdom of Westphalia . For information about the country and its inhabitants, the constitution, administration and external conditions of the state in general and its individual parts in particular, together with a list of the most distinguished court and state officials. Hemmerde and Schwedtschke, Halle 1808, p. 203 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed January 1, 2014]).