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	Styria (duchy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Styria was a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806, and a crownland of Austria-Hungary until it dissolved in 1918.
		The Roman history of Styria is as part of Noricum and Pannonia, with a Celtic population of the Taurisci.
		During the reign of Margrave Ottokar IV (1164-92) Styria was raised to a duchy by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, in 1180.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Styria_(duchy) (1059 words)

	Encyclopedia: Styria (duchy)
		Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec), with a population of 305,000 (council census 2000) is the second-largest city in Austria and the capital of the province of Styria (Steiermark in German).
		Ottokar IV (born 1163, died May 5, 1192) was Margrave of Styria and Duke from 1180 onwards, when Styria, previously a margraviate subordinated to the duchy of Carinthia, was raised to the status of an independent duchy.
		Styria (Steiermark in German, Štajerska in Slovenian) is a federal state or Bundesland, located in the south east of Austria.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Styria-%28duchy%29 (2863 words)

	Styria
		Styria came under the supremacy of Charlemagne as a part of Karantania (Carinthia).
		During the reign of Margrave Ottokar II (1164-92) Styria was raised to a duchy by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1180.
		With the death of Ottokar the first line of rulers of Styria became extinct; the region fell to the Babenberg family who then ruled in Austria.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/styria.html (1063 words)

	Ottokar II. Who is Ottokar II? What is Ottokar II? Where is Ottokar II? Definition of Ottokar II. Meaning of Ottokar II.
		Both before and after he became king of Bohemia in succession to his father in September 1253 Ottokar was involved in a dispute with Bela IV, king of Hungary, over the possession of Styria, which duchy had formerly been united with Austria.
		By an arrangement made in 1254 he surrendered part of it to Bela, but when the dispute was renewed he defeated the Hungarians in July 1260 near Kressenbrunn and secured the whole of Styria for himself, owing his formal investiture with Austria and Styria to the German king, Richard, Earl of Cornwall.
		Ottokar was a founder of towns and a friend of law and order, while he assisted trade and welcomed German immigrants.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Ottokar_II (498 words)

	Ottokar II of Styria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ottokar II (died 1122) was Margrave of Styria).
		He was the son of Ottokar I and grandfather of Ottokar III, from the dynasty of the Otakars.
		After the Eppensteiner dynasty was extinct, Ottokar inherited their possesions in the Mur and MÃ¼rz valley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otakar_II_of_Styria (127 words)

	Banks/Dean Genealogy - Person Page 118
		Ottokar VII (II of Styria) (?) was the son of Ottokar VI (I of Styria) (?) and Wilibirg of Carinthia (?).
		Ottokar VI (I of Styria) (?) was the son of Ottokar V (?) and Wilibirg of Lambach (?).
		Ottokar V (?) was the son of Arnulf (?).
	www.gordonbanks.com /gordon/family/2nd_Site/geb-p/p118.htm (2744 words)

	1255. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Ottokar carried on a successful campaign in support of the Teutonic Knights against the heathen Prussians.
		Ottokar, taking advantage of the interregnum in the German Empire, extended his power over Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria.
		Ottokar was decisively defeated on the Marchfeld (Aug. 26) and killed.
	www.bartleby.com /67/485.html (222 words)

	Rudolph I of Germany - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The support of Albert duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, and of Louis II count palatine of the Rhine and duke of upper Bavaria, had been purchased by betrothing them to two of Rudolph's daughters; so that Ottokar II king of Bohemia, a candidate for the throne, was almost alone in his opposition.
		In November 1274 it was decided by the diet at Nuremberg that all crown estates seized since the death of the emperor Frederick II must be restored, and that Ottokar of Bohemia must answer to the diet for not recognizing the new king.
		On the 26th of August 1278 the rival armies met on the banks of the river March in the Battle of Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen, and Ottokar was defeated and killed.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Rudolph_I_of_Germany (928 words)

	Carinthia and Styria
		A large immigration of German settlers led to the assimilation of the original Slavic population in Carinthia, which 1335 became a part of the Habsburg dynasty's lands and thereafter was linked with Styria and Carniola during the repeated divisions of the Habsburg lands.
		Styria was a part of the old Carinthia, which became a separate margraviate during the tenth century as the "Carinthian Mark".
		The margraviate went 1056 to Ottokar I who styled himself as margrave of Steyr after the castle he had his residence in, this name then evolved to "Styria" (in German Steiermark).
	www.tacitus.nu /historical-atlas/regents/centraleurope/carinthia.htm (340 words)

	Articles - Ottokar I of Styria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ottokar I, Count of Steyr (died 1064), was the founder of the dynasty of the Otakars.
		From 1056 to 1064, he was margrave of the Karantanian March, later to be known as Styria (named Steiermark in German after the town of Steyr, where Ottokar was count).
		The margraves Adalbero and Ottokar II were his sons.
	www.awningz.com /articles/Ottokar_I_of_Styria (83 words)

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		The history of the Graz penny, and thus of an individual currency for the land of Styria, begins in 1186 with the Georgenberger Handfeste (Georgenberg Document), in which the last duke of the Traungau family, Otakar IV, bequeathed his lands to the Babenberg duke Leopold V of Austria.
		Special impetus was provided by King Ottokar of Bohemia, who strengthened the position of the Graz penny as a generally accepted, independent coin of the realm.
		This is among the earliest evidence for the use of the local language on coins in the southern German area.
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	Premysl II Ottokar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		During his father's lifetime he ruled Moravia, but when in 1248 some discontented Bohemian nobles acknowledged him as their sovereign, trouble arose between him and hisfather, and for a short time Ottokar was imprisoned.
		By an arrangement made in 1254 he surrendered part of it to Bela, but when the dispute was renewed he defeated the Hungarians in July 1260 near Kressenbrunn and secured the whole of Styria for himself, owing his formalinvestiture with Austria and Styria to the German king, Richard, Earl of Cornwall.
		Two years laterthe Czech king tried to recover his lost lands, he found allies and collected a large army, but he was defeated by Rudolph andkilled at Dürnkrut on the March on August 26, 1278.
	www.therfcc.org /premysl-ii-ottokar-163554.html (483 words)

	Styria (duchy) - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Styria bordered on (clockwise) Lower Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Carniola, Carinthia, Salzburg and Upper Austria.
		The remaining two thirds, which had a population before World War I that was 68% German-speaking, 32% Slovene, is a federal state of Austria, while the Slovenian third ( Lower Styria) is an informal province in Slovenia.
		The margraves ruling the mark took from the name of the fortified castle of Steier the title of Margraves of Steiermark, and the country received its German name.
	www.iridis.com /Styria_(duchy) (955 words)

	History of Austria - Articles and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Following the extinction of the Babenbergs in the 13th century, Austria came briefly under the rule of the Czech King Ottokar II.
		Ottokar was defeated and killed by German King Rudolf I of Habsburg, who took Austria and gave it to his sons in 1278.
		In the late 16th century, however, the Counter-Reformation began to make its influence felt, and the Jesuit -educated Archduke Ferdinand, who ruled over Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola, was energetic in suppressing heresy in the provinces which he ruled.
	www.ezresult.com /article/History_of_Austria (1254 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Styria
		Styria (German, Steiermark), province, south-eastern Austria, bordering Slovenia, and lying almost wholly within the Alps.
		King Ottokar II of Bohemia occupied Austria, Styria, and Carniola...
		Graz, city in south-east Austria, capital of Styria Province on the Mur River, bordered on three sides by the Alps.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Styria.html (85 words)

	Encyclopedia: Premysl Ottokar II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Encyclopedia: Premysl Ottokar II Updated 153 days 18 hours 43 minutes ago.
		Both before and after he became king of Bohemia in succession to his father in September 1253 Otakar was involved in a dispute with Bela IV, king of Hungary, over the possession of Styria, which duchy had formerly been united with Austria.
		Two years later the Czech king tried to recover his lost lands, he found allies and collected a large army, but he was defeated by Rudolph and killed at the Battle of Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen on the March on August 26, 1278.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Premysl-Ottokar-II (563 words)

	Premysl Ottokar II - Definition up Erdmond.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Premysl Ottokar II (or ''Premysl Ottakar II'', king, Philip_of_Swabia.
		Both before and after he became king of Bohemia in succession to his father in September 1253 Ottokar was involved in a dispute with Bela_IV, king of Hungary, over the possession of Styria, which duchy had formerly been united with Austria.
		By an arrangement made in 1254 he surrendered part of it to Bela, but when the dispute was renewed he defeated the Hungarians in July 1260 near Kressenbrunn and secured the whole of Styria for himself, owing his formal investiture with Austria and Styria to the German king, Richard,_Earl_of_Cornwall.
	www.erdmond.com /Premysl_Ottokar_II.html (464 words)

	Virtual Austria Net: Austria's History
		In 1192 the Babenberg Leopold V acquired the Duchy of Styria through a contract of inheritance.
		When, in 1246, the childless Duke Friedrich II was killed in the Battle of the Leitha against the Magyars, his lands became the object of his neighbors' power politics.
		From the end of the 13th century to the middle of the 15th century the Habsburgs expanded their territory by gaining the Duchy of Carinthia (1335), the Earldom of Tyrol and the "Windische Mark" (1365).
	www.virtualvienna.net /austria/about/austria_history.html (1778 words)

	This is Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1251 Ottokar II was elected Duke of Austria and succeeded his father as King of Bohemia in 1253.
		Some German princes became alarmed by Ottokar's conquests and hoped to stem his power when they elected Rudolf of Habsburg as German King in 1273.
		Rudolf took his army into Austria and after several battles removed Ottokar from all his lands apart from Bohemia and Styria.
	www.heritagesites.eu.com /people/ottokii.htm (164 words)

	f. The Holy Roman Empire. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Struggle with Ottokar, king of Bohemia, over the usurped imperial fiefs of Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola.
		Rudolf expelled Ottokar from Austria by force (1276), but allowed him to retain Bohemia and Moravia (after homage) as a buffer against Slavdom.
		Ottokar was ultimately defeated and killed (Aug. 26, 1278, Battle of the Marchfeld); investiture of Rudolf's sons with the imperial fiefs of Austria, Styria, and Carniola (1282) established the Habsburgs on the Danube.
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	Articles - Carinthia (duchy) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1077, the country was given to Luitpold, another member of the Eppensteiner family, which, however, ended with the death of Henry II of Carinthia in 1122.
		At that time, a lot of territory in what is today Upper Styria passed to Ottokar II of Styria.
		The last Sponheimer duke was Ulrich III, who chose Ottokar II of Bohemia as his heir.
	kamero.net /articles/Carinthia_(duchy)?mySession=848b28c86e69dbebc61... (558 words)

	4Reference \|\| Premysl Ottokar II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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		Both before and after he became king of Bohemia in succession to his father in September 1253 Ottokar was involved in a dispute with Bela IV, king of Hungary, over the possession of Talk:Styria_(duchy), which duchy had formerly been united with Austria.
		The Czech king also led two expeditions against the Prussia ns and founded Kaliningrad (Czech: Královec), named upon him.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Premysl_Ottokar_II.html (516 words)

	Coat of arms - Province of Styria
		When Styria became a dukedom twenty years later, the Traungau coat of arms was transferred to the "Green Province".
		In that year, the Marshall of Styria carried into battle a green banner showing a silver panther.
		However, the Styrian panther does not have much in common with nature's big cats - it has the head of a horse, the mane and tail of a lion, long, shaggy fur on its hind legs, red bull's horns, and talons - and, in addition, it spits fire.
	www.steiermark.at /cms/beitrag/10035547/1510 (109 words)

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		Towards the end of the eighth century Charlemagne established the Carolingian Mark between the Danube and the Drau as a bulwark against further encroachments of the Avars.
		In 1282, after the brief interregnum marked by the reign of Ottokar II Premysl, the Habsburgs - whose origins lay in Swabia - were invested with the Duchy of Austria.
		With great dexterity they set about steadily enlarging their power base, acquiring the Duchies of Styria, Carinthia and Tyrol through contracts of succession and then adding Gorizia and Istria (with Trieste) to their territories.
	www.austria-cafe.com /history.htm (867 words)

	Bruck an der Mur - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bruck an der Mur is a city in the Austrian province of Styria.
		It is located at the confluence of the Mur and MÃ¼rz Rivers.
		It was founded in 1263 by King Premysl II Ottokar.
	www.free-definition.com /Bruck-an-der-Mur.html (91 words)

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		Origins of the coat-of-arms : The first documentary evidence of the Styrian panther as a heraldic device dates from a ducal seal of Ottokar III from the 1260s.
		Duke Ottokar IV died on May 8, 1192, leaving no heir.
		It stipulated that, in the event of the Dukes of Styria dying out, their land would pass to Babenberg Duke Leopold V or his successors.
	www.austria-cafe.com /styria.htm (201 words)

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