Unencirled Territories
A number of imperial territories remained unencircled, for instance:
- the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (i.e. the Kingdom of Bohemia with the March of Moravia and the County of Kladsko, the Duchies of Silesia, as well as Upper and Lower Lusatia)
- the territories of the Swiss Confederacy, withdrawn from the Imperial federation according to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648
- Imperial territories in northern Italy: Mantua, Milan, Modena, Montferrat, Parma and Tuscany
- territories of Imperial Knights
- minor territories, such as:
- the County of Montbéliard
- the Lordship of Schmalkalden
- the Lordship of Jever
- the peasant republic of Dithmarschen (until incorporated into Holstein in 1559)
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