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Article: Spain
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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SPAIN
Known to contemporaries as the House of Austria, the Habsburg dynasty succeeded the Trast
á
mara dynasty (1369
–
1516) and ruled Spain from 1516 to 1700. Its earliest title, count of Habsburg, provides the name now used for it. Spanish kings placed "count of Habsburg" after their royal and ducal titles, which included king of Castile and Le
ó
n, Arag
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n, Valencia, Navarre, Sicily, Sardinia, Naples, and Jerusalem; archduke of Austria; duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Luxembourg, Milan, and more. Other titles with the status of count included Barcelona, Flanders, Holland, Tyrol, and Franche Comt
é
, all preceding such lordships as the Basque Country and Indies East and ...
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