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Austria, Margravate of

Substate Defunct 976 CE – 1156 CE Capital Vienna > Wien Wien Austria

The March of Austria is a southeastern frontier march of the Holy Roman Empire created in 976 out of the territory on the border with the Kingdom of Hungary.

Originally under the overlordship of the Dukes of Bavaria, it is ruled by margraves of the Franconian Babenberg dynasty.

It becomes an Imperial State in its own right, when the Babenbergs are elevated to Dukes of Austria in 1156.

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