!!!Kronländer

Crown Lands (Kronlaender), name of the hereditary countries of the 
House of Habsburg and after 1867 of all kingdoms and countries 
represented in the Reichsrat. Crown lands were Lower Austria, Upper 
Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Tirol and Vorarlberg, which are 
provinces of Austria today, and Carniola, Gorizia, Gradisca, Trieste 
and Istria, as well as Bohemia, Moravia, Austrian Silesia, Galicia, 
Bukovina and Dalmatia. Each of the crown lands had a Landtag 
(parliament), which was elected by the "Kurien" (representative 
bodies, one for owners of large estates, one for the chambers of trade 
and commerce, one for towns and market towns, and one for rural 
municipalities); this was provided for in the  Oktoberdiplom of 1860 
and the provincial codes enacted after the  February Patent of 1861.


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