SWABIAN LEAGUE

association of Swabian cities and other powers in SW Germany for the protection of trade and for regional peace. The Swabian League of 1488–1534 is the best known of the long series dating from the 14th cent. Supported by the Holy Roman emperor as an instrument of imperial power, it comprised more than 26 cities and many nobles, knights, and prelates. The league had a court, a powerful army, and a formal constitution (renewed in 1496, 1500, 1512, and 1522). It backed the election (1519) of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and it used its military power to expel Duke Ulrich I from Württemberg. The league played a leading role in putting down the knights' revolt led by Franz von Sickingen, and it helped defeat the peasants in the Peasants' War. The dissolution (1534) of the league resulted from the opposition of interests between its feudal members and its cities and from the religious split caused by the Reformation. Many Protestant members in 1531 joined the Schmalkaldic League. Later attempts by Charles V to restore the Swabian League failed.

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National States and National Minorities
Book by C. A. Macartney; Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1934
Subjects: League Of Nations, Minorities, Nationalism
...eighteenth centuries. These are strongest round Budapest, north of Lake Balaton, and in southwestern Hungary known of old as Swabian Turkey . Most of the German colonies in south Hungary have now been assigned to Yugoslavia and Roumania, while part of the...
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Germany's Northern Challenge: The Holy Roman Empire and the Scandinavian Struggle for the Baltic, 1563-1576
Book by Jason Lavery; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Baltic Sea Region--History, Hanseatic League--History, Holy Roman Empire--Foreign Relations--Sweden, Holy Roman Empire--History--Maximilian Ii, 1564-1576, Northern Seven Years' War, 1563-1570, Sweden--Foreign Relations--Holy Roman Empire, Sweden--History--Eric Xiv, 1560-1568, Sweden--History--John Iii, 1567-1592
...Vol. 1. Ver6ientlichungen der Kommission fur Neuere Geschichte Osterreichs, vol. 2. Vienna, 1906. Vann, James A. The Swabian Kreis: Institutional Growth in the Holy Roman Empire, 1648-1715. Studies Presented to the International Commission for...
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One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups
Book by James B. Minahan; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Ethnology--Europe--Dictionaries, Europe--History--Dictionaries
...their power in a series of leagues starting in 1331. The Swabian League of 1376-89 successfully...Wurttemberg. The most important Swabian League was that of 1488...internal stability in the Swabian homeland. When the Holy Roman...
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Economic and Social History of Europe in the Later Middle Ages (1300-1530)
Book by James Westfall Thompson; Century, 1931
Subjects: Europe--Economic Conditions, Europe--Social Conditions, Middle Ages--History
...had loaned the emperor. The league was unable to suppress the...Nuremberg entered the league of the Swabian cities, as did Basel, and...the necessary finances, the Swabian cities, at the suggestion...outlook became threatening. The Swabian cities were in favor of an...
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The European Dynastic States, 1494-1660
Book by Richard Bonney; Oxford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Europe--History--1492-1648
...and 12,000 infantry, the Leagues army was more than a match...surrounded by his territories, Swabian League took immediate counter-measures...time, it seemed that the Swabian League might help Maximilian...Swiss Confederation. The Swabian League was still able to take...
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journal articles on: Swabian League  - 6 results

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Southern History in Periodicals, 2000: A Selected Bibliography
Journal article; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 67, 2001
...Loyaltys Political Vanguard: The Union League of Maryville, Tennessee, 1867-1869...42. RICHARD A. HAWKINS. Lynchburgs Swabian Jewish Entrepreneurs in War and Peace...Townsend, and the Norfolk Equal Suffrage League fl. 1909-1920. Va. Cavalcade, v...
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Food as an Ideological Tool: National Socialism and the German-Australian Community
Journal article by Emily Turner-Graham; Journal of Australian Studies, 2006
Subjects: Australian cooking--History, Australian cooking--Political aspects, Australian cooking--Social aspects, Cookery, Australian--History, Cookery, Australian--Political aspects, Cookery, Australian--Social aspects, Cookery, German--History, Cookery, German--Political aspects, Cookery, German--Social aspects, Food habits--History, Food habits--Political aspects, Food habits--Social aspects, German cooking--History, German cooking--Political aspects, German cooking--Social aspects, National socialism--History, National socialism--Influence
...the Bund des Deutschtums in Australien und New Seeland (the League of Germans in Australia and New Zealand) in 1934 in the name...featured articles on regional dishes such as Schwabische Klosse (Swabian dumplings) sic to jog the memories of those who had emanated...
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Integration and Formation of Identity
Journal article by Hildegard Feidel-Mertz; Shofar, Vol. 23, 2004
Subjects: Children & youth, Crime, Culture, Early intervention, Education, England, Germany, Holocaust, International, Jews, Life, Lifetime, Minority & ethnic groups, Preschool education, Social conditions & trends, Society
...language that, despite all the rehearsals, still left the Swabian, Bavarian, or Rhenish dialects recognizable. It was, nevertheless...guests representing the Workers Education Association and the League of Nations Association. In Stoatley Rough drama performances...
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Fordism, Mass Tourism and the Third Reich: The "Strength through Joy" Seaside Resort as an Index Fossil
Journal article by Hasso Spode; Journal of Social History, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects: Germany--History, Germany--Social aspects, Third Reich, 1933-1945--History, Third Reich, 1933-1945--Social aspects, Tourism--History, Tourism--Social aspects, Travel industry--History, Travel industry--Social aspects
...Heiligenhafen 44 RM; a seven day "reduced offer" into the Swabian Jura only 16 RM. In addition to those normal holiday trips...Its impressive form followed his prizewinning plan of the League of Nations building in Geneva in 1927--a difficult mixture...
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The Hidden War: Working-class Resistance during the Third Reich and the Postwar Suppression of Its History
Journal article by Patricia P; Nature, Society, and Thought, Vol. 11, 1998
Subjects: Europe, Germany, History, International, Political dissent, Politics, Rebellions, West Germany
...Neubeginnen); and the International Socialist Fighters League, (ISK). The KPO was typical in many ways. Security dictated...such as the attempt made on Hitlers life by Georg Elser, a Swabian carpenter, carried out without the benefit of a network...
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Maximilian I Signs the Peace of Basel
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 49, September 1999
Subjects: Basel, Switzerland--Politics and government, Maximilian I--Biography
...allied themselves in a Perpetual League of mutual defence. Other cantons...Zurich and Bern, adhered to the League as the struggle wore on. It...Switzerland, in alliance with the Swabian League of minor principalities...must have a master. The Swabian War was waged along the Rhine...
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FP's Second Annual 100 Top Global Thinkers: Foreign Policy Presents a Unique Portrait of 2010's Global Marketplace of Ideas and the Thinkers Who Make Them
Magazine article; Foreign Policy, December 2010
Subjects: Capitalists and financiers--Evaluation, Economists--Evaluation, Politicians--Evaluation, Scholars--Evaluation
...less likely source of wisdom: The famously penny-pinching "Swabian housewife is the model for the world economy," Merkel said...controversially returned a $10,000 prize to the Anti-Defamation League after the group announced its opposition to a proposed Muslim...
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The Treaty of Westphalia
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 48, October 1998
Subjects: Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648--History, Treaties--History, Treaty of Westphalia--1648
...France, Wallenstein for the Empire and Tilly for the Catholic League, and there was an able Bavarian general curiously named Franz...bark and grass, says a pitiful entry in a family Bible from a Swabian village. `No one could have imagined that anything like this...


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Scandal and Justice in a German Town
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, March 10, 1996
...cavalry officer, a mercenary at the top of a career spent "killing factious noblemen and rebellious peasants for the Swabian League." But such feelings of familiarity are illusory, on account of the mysteries presented to the modern mind by the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Swabian League  - 10 results

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Swabian League
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SWABIAN LEAGUE association of Swabian cities and other powers in SW Germany for the protection of trade and for regional peace. The Swabian League of 1488 1534 is the best known of the long series dating...
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Swabia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and knights. Most of the Swabian municipalities had obtained...felt by forming a series of leagues, starting in 1331. The Swabian League of 1376 89 successfully opposed...Wurttemberg. The most important Swabian League was that of 1488 1534...
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Reutlingen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the mid-13th cent. until it passed (1802 3) to Wurttemberg. In 1377 the Swabian League defeated Duke Ulrich of Wurttemberg there. Reutlingen was the first Swabian city to accept the Protestant Reformation (16th cent.). The Church of St...
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Augsburg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Frankish kings. It was made a free imperial city in 1276 and was later a powerful member of various Swabian leagues, including the Swabian League of 1488 1534. Augsburg was one of Europes most important commercial and banking centers in the 15th...
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WÜrttemberg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Bavaria in the east and northeast. It included the Swabian Jura in the south and part of the Black Forest in the...raised to ducal rank in 1495. In 1519, however, the Swabian League of cities, fearing the rising power of Wurttemberg...
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