...Dresden.

Thus, the Ernestine line at first has the greater authority, until the electoral dignity and territory fall in the sixteenth century to the Albertine line, which, when Saxony is proclaimed a kingdom in the nineteenth century, becomes a royal house.

The partition decisively enfeebles the Wettin dynasty in the rivalry with the rising House of Hohenzollern, who in 1415 had also achieved the electoral dignity as Margraves of Brandenburg.

A Slavic settlement called Drežďany had developed around the late twelfth century on the southern bank of a Another settlement existed on the northern bank on the River Elbe, near the border of Saxony with Bohemia, but its Slavic name is unclear.

It was known as Antiqua Dresdin by 1350, and later as Altendresden, both literally "old Dresden".

Dietrich, Margrave of Meissen, chose Dresden as his interim residence in 1206, as documented in a record calling the place "Civitas Dresdene".

After 1270, Dresden had become the capital of the margraviate.

It was restored to the Wettin dynasty in about 1319.

Dresden becomes the permanent residence of the dukes of Alberine Saxony.