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Ethnographic map of the Austrian Empire c. 1855 which also shows the boundaries of the crown lands and Kreise. A Kreis (pl. Kreise) or 'Circle' was an administrative division of the Habsburg monarchy and Austrian Empire between 1748 and 1867.
The Austrian Empire, [a] officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, ... (in addition to the Kreise), ...
Kreise of the former Electorate of Saxony; Kreis (Habsburg monarchy), a former type of subdivision of the Habsburg monarchy and Austrian Empire; Reichkreise, or Imperial Circles, ceremonial associations of several regional monarchies (Reichsländer) and/or imperial cities (Reichsstädte) in the Holy Roman Empire
The Lugos District comprised the easternmost parts of Banat (the Military Frontier notwithstanding). It shared borders with the Temesvár District to the west, the Banat Military Frontier in the south and east, the Grand Principality of Transylvania (initially the Karlsburger Kreis, Kreis Broos from 1854) in the north-east, and the Hungarian Arad County in the north (all parts of the Austrian ...
Consequently, in the 18th century the circle was known as Austrian Netherlands as the Austrian Habsburgs had obtained the territory from Spain earlier in that century. The occupation and subsequent annexation of Imperial territory to the west of the Rhine river by Revolutionary France in the 1790s effectively brought an end to the circle's ...
The Kingdom of Hungary had always maintained a separate parliament, the Diet of Hungary, even after the Austrian Empire was created in 1804. [10] The administration and government of the Kingdom of Hungary (until 1848–49 Hungarian revolution) remained largely untouched by the government structure of the overarching Austrian Empire.
(See also Districts of Austria § Habsburg Monarchy and Austrian Empire.) In 1860, the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar and its five districts were abolished and the territory of the Großbetschkerek District was administratively included into the Torontal County (part of the Austrian Kingdom of Hungary).
A map showing the Kreise and Kreisdistrikte of Galicia and Lodomeria 1777–82. The Kreise (lit. ' circles '; sg. Kreis; Polish: cyrkuły, sg. cyrkuł; Ukrainian: округи okruhy, sg. округ okruh) of Galicia and Lodomeria go back in some form to the aftermath of the First Partition of Poland in 1772 which led to the Kingdom's creation, but did not take something resembling their final ...