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The Duchy of Styria, which existed as a distinct political-administrative entity from the 12th century to 1918, used to be divided into three traditional regions: the northern two-thirds of the former duchy, known historically as Upper and Central Styria, have been German-speaking and today form the Austrian State of Styria ().
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Most Slovenes lived in the administrative region known as Inner Austria, forming the majority of the population of the Duchy of Carniola and the County of Gorizia and Gradisca, as well as of Lower Styria and southern Carinthia.
* Frederick Barbarossa removes Henry the Lion from the Duchy of Saxony, and creates the Duchies of Westphalia and Styria.
In 1192, the Babenbergs also acquired the Duchy of Styria through the Georgenberg Pact.
In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Habsburgs began to accumulate other provinces in the vicinity of the Duchy of Austria, which remained a small territory along the Danube, and Styria, which they had acquired from Ottokar along with Austria.
After the Counts of Celje died out in 1456, the region was inherited by the Habsburgs of Austria and administered by the Duchy of Styria.
The March of Styria was created in the Duchy of Carinthia in the late 10th century as a defence against the Magyars.
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Le Fanu's story is set in the Duchy of Styria.
Following the battle, the two Kings of Hungary ceded the Duchy of Styria to the King of Bohemia in the Peace of Pressburg.
* Duchy of Styria, a former state of the Holy Roman Empire and one-time crown land of Austria-Hungary
Béla formed a loose alliance with the Duke of Bavaria and claimed the Duchy of Styria, which had been a component of Austria since 1192.
In the southeast, Salzburg adjoined the Duchy of Styria, also ruled by the Habsburg ( arch -) dukes in personal union since 1192.
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The Emperor declared direct imperial rule in both Austria and the Duchy of Styria, also held by the fleeing Duke.
The German name Unterdrauburg denoted the place where the Drava River left Carinthia and flowed into the neighbouring Duchy of Styria.
* Austrian Littoral, Duchy of Carniola and the Kingdom of Dalmatia were under Austrian jurisdiction-in Cisleithania, and in addition the Duchy of Styria and the Duchy of Carinthia also included a significant South Slavic population
Jakob Lorber was born in Kaniža, a small village in the Jahring parish, Duchy of Styria ( now Kaniža pri Jarenini in Lower Styria, Slovenia ) to a peasant family, Michael Lorber and his wife Maria, née Tautscher.
As Pettau, it was incorporated into the Duchy of Styria in 1555.
While most of the Traungau fell to the Babenberg duchy of Austria upon the deposition of the Bavarian duke Henry the Lion in 1180, the southeastern Ausseerland remained with the newly established Duchy of Styria, which nevertheless from 1192 was held in personal union by the Austrian Babenbergs.
Based on the provision of the peace Wiener Neustadt and the Duchy of Styria came under Béla's rule.
Following the battle, Béla renounced his claim to the Duchy of Styria on behalf of the King of Bohemia in the Peace of Pressburg.
From 1180 until 1918 it belonged to the Duchy of Styria, since 1804 a crown land of the Austrian Empire.
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Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.
Although Albert has received relatively little recognition in German history, his dissolution of the Teutonic State caused the founding of the Duchy of Prussia ( and also the Hohenzollern dynasty ), which would eventually become arguably the most powerful German state and instrumental in uniting the whole of Germany.
After the Emperor had deposed the Guelph rulers of Saxony in 1180, Ascanians returned to rule the Duchy of Saxony, which had been reduced to its eastern half by the Emperor.
After the fall of the Duchy of Athens and the principality of Achaia, the only Latin possessions left on the mainland of Greece were the papal city of Monemvasia, the fortress of Vonitsa, the Messenian stations Coron and Modon, Navarino, the castles of Argos and Nauplia, to which the island of Aegina was subordinate, Lepanto and Pteleon.
In 1683, the Qing staged an amphibious assault on southern Taiwan, bringing down the rebel Grand Duchy of Tungning, which was founded by the Ming loyalist Koxinga in 1662 after the fall of the Southern Ming, and had served as a base for continued Ming resistance in Southern China.
In 1411, the First Peace of Thorn ended the Polish – Lithuanian – Teutonic War, in which the Teutonic Knights fought the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
At the beginning of the 10th century a Duchy of Franconia ( German Herzogtum Franken ) was established within East Francia, which comprised modern Hesse, Palatinate, parts of Baden-Württemberg and most of nowaday's Franconia.
East Francia was made up of four stem duchies, one of which was the Duchy of Franconia.
These developments also encouraged Finnish nationalism and cultural unity through the birth of the Fennoman movement, which bound the Finns to the domestic governmental system and led to the idea that the Finnish Grand Duchy was an increasingly autonomous part of the Russian Empire.
Verdi was born the son of Carlo Giuseppe Verdi and Luigia Uttini in Le Roncole, a village near Busseto, then in the Département Taro which was a part of the First French Empire after the annexation of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza.
More successful was the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806, which led to the region's becoming part of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw ( forming the Poznań Department and parts of the Kalisz and Bydgoszcz Departments ).
Within the Prussian empire, western Greater Poland became the Grand Duchy of Posen ( Poznań ), which theoretically held some autonomy.
Considered by most to have been the first mercenary company in Western Europe, the Catalan Company proceeded to occupy the Duchy of Athens, which they placed under the protection of a prince of the House of Aragon and ruled until 1379.
Peace was settled in the Treaty of Vienna ( 1738 ), according to which France would annex, through inheritance, the Duchy of Lorraine.
In return for this intervention, Piedmont ceded the County of Nice ( which included the city of Nice and the rugged Alpine territory to its north and east ) and the Duchy of Savoy.
The site of Hedeby is located in the Duchy of Schleswig, which was traditionally the personal territory of the kings of Denmark.
She was instrumental in promoting Mantua to a Duchy, which was obtained by wise diplomatic use of her son's marriage contracts.
He was born in Walldorf, near Heidelberg in the old Palatinate which became part of the Duchy of Baden in 1803 ( now in Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany ).
The military and plundering activities of the Lithuanians triggered a struggle for power in Lithuania, which initiated the formation of early statehood, from which the Grand Duchy of Lithuania developed.
Francysk Skaryna, who wrote and published in his native Ruthenian ( Old Belarusian ) language, was typical in this respect of the earlier phase of the Renaissance in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which lasted until the middle of the 16th century, when Polish predominated.
The topography of the country is divided very clearly between the hilly Oesling of the northern third of the Grand Duchy and the flat Gutland, which occupies the southern two-thirds.
Benevento meanwhile grew to its greatest extent yet when it imposed a tribute on the Duchy of Naples, which was tenuously loyal to Byzantium and even conquered the Neapolitan city of Amalfi in 838.
* the Couesnon, which traditionally marks the boundary between the Duchy of Brittany and the Duchy of Normandy
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