 Imperial Circle - States outside the circles: Encyclopedia II - Imperial Circle - Formation of the circlesInitially six circles were created in 1500 as part of the Reichsreform (Imperial Reform):
the Bavarian Circle
the Swabian Circle
the Upper Rhenish Circle
the (Lower Rhenish-)Westphalian Circle
the Franconian Circle
the Lower Saxon Circle
A further four circles were created in 1512:
the Burgundian Circle
the Austrian Circle
the Upper Saxon Circle
the Electoral Rhenish Circle
These ten circles remained largely unchanged until the early 1790s, when the Wars of the French Revolution brought a ...
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