This map shows the expansion of the Habsburg Dynasty from the thirteenth century until 1918. The Habsburgs ruled Austria from 1282 until the end of the First World War. Their dynasty also controlled significant parts of Central Europe, including Württemberg, Hungary, and Bohemia (1526–1918), and they ruled Spain, the Spanish Netherlands, and the global Spanish empire for almost two centuries (1504–06, 1516–1700). The Habsburgs reached the height of their power in the sixteenth century under Emperor Charles V. From the fifteenth until the eighteenth century, the Holy Roman Emperors all hailed from the Habsburg dynasty.
Source: Map 1 (Arthur Banks), C.A. Macartney, ed.,
The Habsburg and Hohenzollern Dynasties in
the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Documentary History of
Western Civilization. New York, Evanston, and London: Harper &
Row, 1970.
Cartography by Mapping Solutions, Alaska,
2010.