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	Habsburg -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Habsburg (sometimes spelled Hapsburg, but never so in official use) was one of the major (Click link for more info and facts about ruling houses) ruling houses of (The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles) Europe.
		The Austrian Habsburgs held (after 1556) the title of (Sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire) Holy Roman Emperor, as well as the Habsburg Hereditary Lands and the Kingdoms of Bohemia and Hungary, while the Spanish Habsburgs ruled over the Spanish kingdoms, the Netherlands, the Habsburgs' Italian possessions, and, for a time, Portugal.
		The kingship of Hungary remained in the Habsburg family for centuries; but as the kingship was not strictly inherited and was sometimes used as a training ground for young Habsburgs, the dates of rule do not always match those of the primary Habsburg possessions.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ha/Habsburg.htm (4080 words)

	Old Swiss Confederacy - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		With the rise of the Habsburg dynasty, the kings and dukes of Habsburg sought to extend their influence over this region and to bring it under their rule; as a consequence, a conflict ensued between the Habsburgs and these mountain communities who tried to defend their privileged status as reichsfrei regions.
		This did not prevent the dukes of Habsburg, who originally had had their homelands in the Aargau, from trying to reassert their sovereignty over the territories south of the Rhine.
		The Habsburgs responded by sending a strong army of knights against them to subdue their insurrection and to gain control over the St. Gotthard pass, but the Austrian army of Frederick's brother Leopold I was utterly defeated in the Battle of Morgarten in 1315.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Old_Swiss_Confederacy (4650 words)

	Habsburg on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		as the seat of the counts of Habsburg or Hapsburg, whose name derives from the castle [Ger.
		Otto von Habsburg and the future of Europe.
		Habsburgs demand return of estates seized by Nazis in 1938 Emperor's descendants file claim for castles and forests seized by Hitler and kept by Austria
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/HabsbrgC1a.asp (323 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Switzerland
		In the partition of the Frankish Empire by the Treaty of Verdun in 843 the central and eastern parts of Switzerland fell to the Kingdom of Alamannia, the western to the Kingdom of Lorraine, and later to France.
		Louis of Bavaria withdrew the ban in 1315 and obliged the Archbishop of Mainz to recall the excommunication of the inhabitants of the forest districts (Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, and Lucerne).
		The further development of political conditions and the struggle with the Habsburgs connected with it led to the union with the forest districts of the city of Lucerne in 1332, the city of Zürich in 1351, and the district of Glarus and the city of Zug in 1352, all these new members joining the League.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14358a.htm (8017 words)

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