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12: Habsburg Curiosity

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Privalegium Mayus in 1359

There's a lot of this later on, which is good fun for historians. They just make up something called the Privalegium mayus in 1359. The Luxonborgs are going to be ruling as Holy Roman emperors until 1437. A crisis and a marriage are going to flip the Holy Roman Empire back to the Habsburgs. It's just completely made up, but it's a nice story. If you have a nice story and you have power, then sometimes you can make your nice story seem like it's true.

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