Editing Schellenberg (section)

===Early history===
{{see also|Lordship of Schellenberg}}
The area was first settled by [[Celts]], then by [[Rhaetia]]ns. [[Rome]] conquered the area in 15 BC, and made it part of the province of Rhaetia. The Province later became a county (countship) under [[Charlemagne]]. The county was repeatedly divided among heirs.<ref name=schellenberg>[http://www.schellenberg.li/files/medienarchiv/Schellenberg-history.pdf History of Schellenberg]</ref>

The [[Lordship of Schellenberg]] was purchased by the Counts of [[Vaduz]] in 1437 and the two states have been united in fact ever since. After the [[Swabian War]] in 1499, both came under [[Austria]]n suzerainty. Different dynasties of counts bought and sold them, until their purchase in the early 18th century by the [[Liechtenstein dynasty]], which had been granted princely status in 1706, but which needed to acquire a territory with imperial immediacy in order to vote in the Diet of the Princes of the Empire. The emperor formally united Vaduz and Schellenberg in 1719 as the Principality of Liechtenstein.<ref name=schellenberg/><ref>[http://states-world.com/state.php/1325 The Lordship of Schellenberg] on states-world.com</ref>