WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The expansion of the Habsburgs into western Europe increasingly led to border tensions with the Kingdom of France, which found itself encircled by Habsburg territory. The subsequent rivalry between the two powers became a cause for several conflicts.

Detailed explanation-2: -After 1279, the Habsburgs came to rule in the Duchy of Austria, which was part of the elective Kingdom of Germany within the Holy Roman Empire. King Rudolf I of Germany of the Habsburg family assigned the Duchy of Austria to his sons at the Diet of Augsburg (1282), thus establishing the “Austrian hereditary lands".

Detailed explanation-3: -The Spanish Habsburgs also ruled Portugal for a time, known there as the Philippine dynasty (1580–1640). The Seventeen Provinces and the Duchy of Milan were in personal union under the King of Spain, but remained part of the Holy Roman Empire.

Detailed explanation-4: -’The Habsburg Empire that ruled over Austria-Hungary was a patchwork of many different regions and peoples’. The Habsburg empire is the unofficial term used by many people to refer to the central European monarchy that ruled over a collection of lands from the 13th century to 1918.