crownland
Britishnoun
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Technically each time he crossed it he would be passing from the Margraviate of Moravia to the Kingdom of Hungary, from one Habsburg crownland to another.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2022
As capital of the crownland of Galicia, it had come to be a handsome city, of many parks, wide boulevards, three cathedrals, many churches, and a great number of important public monuments.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
On October 22, 1914, the Austrians retook Czernowitz, capital of the crownland of Bukowina, which had been in the possession of the Russians since early in the war.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
It formed a district of the administrative province of Trieste until 1861, when it became a separate crownland under its actual name.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
BUKOVINA, a duchy and crownland of Austria, bounded E. by Russia and Rumania, S. by Rumania, W. by Transylvania and Hungary, and N. by Galicia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
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