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Niederösterreiche Landtag
Topic Started: March 5 2009, 11:18 PM (74 Views)
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The Niederösterreiche Landtag (Lower Austrian Diet) is the collection of feudal estates that represent the population of the various duchies and counties of the Austrian Alps located in Upper and Lower Austria focused around the city of Vienna. The estates of the region tend to acquiesce to the requests of their Habsburg lords due to the increasing threat of the Ottoman Turks to the south-east, as well as demonstrating a consistent centralizing tendency of encouraging the Habsburgs to integrate the various feuding and decentralized organisms of the Habsburg German unity together into a cohesive feudal organism, to which the smaller duchies and counties of the region stand to benefit. Despite this centralizing tendency, the character of the estates of Upper and Lower Austria continue to become more and more Protestant as conversions and the beliefs and teachings of Martin Luther proliferate in the towns and countryside.
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