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Habsburg, castle, SwitzerlandHabsburg (häps`b rkh), castle, Aargau canton, N Switzerland, near the Aare River. Built c.1030, it served during the 12th and 13th cent. as the seat of the counts of Habsburg or Hapsburg Hapsburg-Lorraine. An enlightened despot, Joseph II instituted reforms that included abolition of serfdom, revision of the penal code, religious toleration, and reduction of the power of the church. Leadership in the Hapsburg empire was given to the Germans...... Click the link for more information. , whose name derives from the castle [Ger. Habichtsburg=hawk's castle]. Habsburg, Austrian royal familyHabsburg, family: see Hapsburg.How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 37) Especially between 1580 and 1640, when the Spanish Habsburgs assumed the crown of Portugal and hundreds or thousands of Portuguese conversos resettled in Spain, many Spaniards, both "Old" and "New" Christians, came to associate Portuguese ethnicity with crypto-Judaism, so much so that the adjective "Portuguese" (portugues/a) became a euphemism for "(crypto-) Jew" in colloquial Castilian usage. For the Common Good retains value for the author's extensive archival research and his success in delineating some of the challenges and opportunities of urban politics under the regime of multiple overlapping authorities characteristic of the Spanish monarchy of the Habsburgs. 1) It is notable that in 2001, at a time when the royal biography is not an especially favored genre of professional historians, the Habsburgs can still be approached through that old-fashioned form of historical narrative, which is what Paula Sutter Fichtner has done in writing Emperor Maximilian II. |
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