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12: Habsburg Curiosity

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Is Marietteresia the Empress of the Habsburgs?

Marietteresia takes over as Empress of the Habsburg lands in 1740. She's immediately challenged in a way which we would now refer to as highly gendered by Friedrich of Prussia. He says, sure you have the right to rule, that's all fine, but I think I need to decide for you which territories you get to rule. So, the Prussians make war on the Habsbergs and they lose one territory - Silesia. But meanwhile she does bear a son in 1741, beginning a new house, Habsburg-Larenne, which is going to rule until 1918.

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