Description: The Official Website of The Crown Principality of Hoehnke, the smallest country to list German as an official language and the only one with a Mediterranean coastline. It is known as a principality as it is a monarchy headed by a Princess.
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Hoehnke, officially the Crown Principality of Hoehnke (German: Krönen Fürstentum Hoehnke ) is a European micronation situated on the coast of the northern Adriatic on the Istrian peninsula entirely surrounded by Croatia except for its 1.3 mi (2.1 kilometer) coastline, some 25 kms from the border with Slovenia and 30 kms from the Italian city of Trieste. Its capital is Hoehnke Stadt, from which the principality derives its name.
Hoehnke was a part of the Austrian Empire until their defeat in WWI after which it achieved full independance under the terms of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, signed at Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France, France in 1919. The anniversary of its signing on 10th September is still celebrated as a public holiday in Hoehnke each year. Following the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Hoehnke's period of isolation finally came to an end.