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Europe · High and late Middle Ages

Duchy of Styria

drawn on the map 1260–1501

German Steiermark; a duchy from 1180 (raised from a march). It was united with Austria under the Babenbergs and then the Habsburgs, forming part of the Inner Austrian hereditary lands, with Graz as its principal city.

Shown on the map
1260–1501
Peak area
17k km²
Region
Europe

Overview

German Steiermark; a duchy from 1180 (raised from a march). It was united with Austria under the Babenbergs and then the Habsburgs, forming part of the Inner Austrian hereditary lands, with Graz as its principal city.

Common questions

What was the Duchy of Styria?
German Steiermark; a duchy from 1180 (raised from a march). It was united with Austria under the Babenbergs and then the Habsburgs, forming part of the Inner Austrian hereditary lands, with Graz as its principal city.
When is the Duchy of Styria shown on the map?
The border data draws the Duchy of Styria 1260–1501. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
How large was the Duchy of Styria?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Duchy of Styria covered about 17,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, German History in Documents and Images, national institutions such as the Swiss Federal Council and the National Museum of Denmark, and the scholarship of Peter H. Wilson and Joachim Whaley on the Holy Roman Empire. The article this entry is anchored on:

This entry was last updated .

This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made

Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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