Burgundian Kreis
European history
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history of Low Countries
- In history of the Low Countries: The Habsburgs
…from the empire as “Burgundian Kreis” (“Circle”) (1548) and in the Pragmatic Sanction (1549), which stated that succession would be regulated in identical fashion in all the regions of the Low Countries that he had included in his empire. The Low Countries were thus prevented from being split up.
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