word order in relative clause
Hello,
I was recently reading a wikipedia article in German and I came across a sentence which is puzzling me.
The sentence reads:
"Bis 1707 war es ein eigenständiges Königreich, in jenem Jahr wurde es mit dem Königreich England – mit dem es bereits seit 1603 in Personalunion regiert wurde – vereinigt."
What confuses me is the word order in the subordinate clause, particularly the section '. . . , in jenem Jahr wurde es . . ." Wouldn't the verb 'wurde' be at the end of the clause? Or is there something I'm missing?
Shouldn't the sentence instead read:
"Bis 1707 war es ein eigenständiges Königreich, in jenem Jahr es mit dem Königreich England – mit dem es bereits seit 1603 in Personalunion regiert wurde – vereinigt wurde."
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It's not a subordinate clause, it's two main clauses connected without "und". You can tell because there's none of the typical "marker" words that start a subclause. If it was a relative clause, it should have started with "in dem" and no noun, because the relative pronoun must refer to "Königreich" (the part in front).
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