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In the 18th century, the Holy Roman Empire consisted of approximately 1,800 such territories, the majority being tiny estates owned by the families of Imperial Knights. [2] This page does not directly contain the list but discusses the format of the various lists and offers some background to understand the complex organisation of the Holy ...
Kingdom of Sardinia part of Spanish Empire: 8 August 1720 Philip V's viceroy handed Sardinia over to an Austrian representative, who in turn transferred it to the viceroy of Victor Amadeus 5 Austrian Netherlands part of Holy Roman Empire Luxembourg: Spanish Netherlands part of Holy Roman Empire: 7 March 1714 Treaty of Rastatt: 6
Since Charlemagne, the realm was merely referred to as the Roman Empire. [35] The term sacrum ("holy", in the sense of "consecrated") in connection with the medieval Roman Empire was used beginning in 1157 under Frederick I Barbarossa ("Holy Empire"): the term was added to reflect Frederick's ambition to dominate Italy and the Papacy. [36]
The Holy Roman Empire was a highly decentralized collection of polities. [1] A comprehensive list of all of its anachronistic components has been made at List of states in the Holy Roman Empire, and would be much too large to fit here. Austria – Archduchy of Austria Capital: Vienna; Bavaria – Duchy of Bavaria Capital: Regensburg
1648: Left the Empire as part of Switzerland: Appenzell Innerrhoden (Appenzell Inner Rhodes) Canton — — 1597: Partitioned from Appenzell 1648: Left the Empire as part of Switzerland: Are (Ahr) County — — 992: First mentioned in the Ahrgau 1107: Imperial immediacy 1144: Partitioned into Are-Are, Are-Nürburg and Are-Hochstaden: Are-Are ...
The Lands of the Bohemian Crown were the states in Central Europe during the medieval and early modern periods with feudal obligations to the Bohemian kings.The crown lands primarily consisted of the Kingdom of Bohemia, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire according to the Golden Bull of 1356, the Margraviate of Moravia, the Duchies of Silesia, and the two Lusatias, known as the Margraviate ...
A map of the Imperial Circles as in 1560. Unencircled territories appear in white. When the Imperial Circles (Latin: Circuli imperii; German: Reichskreise) — comprising a regional grouping of territories of the Holy Roman Empire — were created as part of the Imperial Reform at the 1500 Diet of Augsburg, many Imperial territories remained unencircled.
The traditional social stratification of the Occident in the 15th century. Church and state in medieval Europe was the relationship between the Catholic Church and the various monarchies and other states in Europe during the Middle Ages (between the end of Roman authority in the West in the fifth century to their end in the East in the fifteenth century and the beginning of the [Modern era]]).