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A map of the imperial circles in 1560
Burgundian Circle
Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle
Electoral Rhenish Circle
Upper Rhenish Circle
Lower Saxon Circle
Upper Saxon Circle
Franconian Circle
Swabian Circle
Bavarian Circle
Austrian Circle
Unencircled territories
During the early modern period, the Holy Roman Empire was divided into imperial circles (Latin: Circuli imperii, German: Reichskreise; singular: Circulus imperii, Reichskreis), administrative groupings whose primary purposes were the organization of common defensive structure and the collection of imperial taxes. They were also used as a means of organization within the Imperial Diet and the Imperial Chamber Court. Each circle had a circle diet, although not every member of the circle diet would hold membership of the Imperial Diet as well.
Six imperial circles were introduced at the Diet of Augsburg in 1500. In 1512, three more circles were added, and the large Saxon Circle was split into two, so that from 1512 until the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire in the Napoleonic era, there were ten imperial circles. The Crown of Bohemia, the Swiss Confederacy and Italy remained unencircled, as did various minor territories which held imperial immediacy.
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The Burgundian Circle (German: Burgundischer Kreis, Dutch: Bourgondische Kreits, French: Cercle de Bourgogne) was an ImperialCircle of the Holy Roman...
The Franconian Circle (German: Fränkischer Reichskreis) was an ImperialCircle established in 1500 in the centre of the Holy Roman Empire. It comprised...
Bavarian Circle (German: Bayerischer Reichskreis) was an ImperialCircle of the Holy Roman Empire. The most significant state by far in the circle was the...
("Circle Diet"), and one or more directors, who coordinated the affairs of the circle. Not all imperial territories were included within the imperial circles...
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The Upper Saxon Circle (German: Obersächsischer Reichskreis) was an ImperialCircle of the Holy Roman Empire, created in 1512. The circle was dominated...
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accept Imperial taxation and military obligations. Furthermore, the Estate was required to obtain admittance into one of the ImperialCircles. Theoretically...
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