Was the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy One of the True Great Powers? On the Historical-Geographical and Political-Geographical Aspects of the Fall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

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The spatial structure of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, a state born in 1867, was the end-product of a process of spatial development that had lasted several centuries.This process can best be described by summing up the spatial changes of Habsburg-owned properties in the given historical periods. 1 The oldest property of the Habsburg dynasty -the castle of Habichtsburg -is located in the Swiss canton of Aargau.In the 13-14 th centuries, the Habsburgs' Central European possessions were still of insignificant size, but, by the turn of the 15-16 th centuries the members of the dynasty succeeded in acquiring the throne of Spain and, at the same time, they got hold of huge possessions both in Europe and overseas.They could only keep control over this situation of sudden growth by dividing the dynasty into two -Spanish and Austrian -branches.The Spanish branch reigned over Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, Burgundy, the Kingdom of Naples, the Kingdom of Sardinia, Sicily and the colonies ove

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