Two important parts of the old kingdom, two circles of the division of Maximilian, still remain. These are the lands which form the circles of _Burgundy_ and _Austria_. These are lands which have, in earlier or later times, wholly fallen off from the German Kingdom. ♦Circle of _Austria_.♦ The _Austrian_ circle was formed of the lands in southern Germany which gradually gathered in the hands of the second Austrian dynasty, the House of Habsburg. ♦Growth of the House of Austria.♦ Starting from the original mark on the Hungarian frontier, those lands grew, first into a great German, and then into a great European, power, and the latest changes have made even their German lands politically non-German. The growth of the Austrian House will therefore be properly dealt with in a separate section. ♦Extent of its German lands.♦ It is enough to say here that the Austrian dominion in Germany gradually took in, besides the original duchy, the south-eastern duchies of _Steiermark_ or _Styria_, _Kärnthen_ or _Carinthia_, and _Krain_ or _Carniola_, with the Italian borderlands of _Görz_, _Aquileia_, and part of _Istria_. ♦Tyrol.♦ Joined to these by a kind of geographical isthmus, like that which joins Silesia and Brandenburg, lay the western possessions of the house, the Bavarian county of _Tyrol_ and various outlying strips and points of lands in _Swabia_ and _Elsass_. ♦Loss of Swabian lands.♦ The growth of the Confederates cut short the Swabian possessions of Austria, as the later cession to France cut short its Alsatian possessions. Still a Swabian remnant remained down to the dissolution of the Kingdom. ♦Bohemia and its dependencies.♦ The kingdom of _Bohemia_, with the dependent lands of Moravia and _Silesia_, though held by the Archdukes of Austria and giving them electoral rank, was not included in any German circle. ♦Trent and Brixen.♦ The Austrian circle moreover was not wholly made up of the dominions of the Austrian house; besides some smaller territories it also took in the bishoprics of _Trent_ and _Brixen_ on the debateable frontier of Italy and old Bavaria. ♦Circle of Burgundy.♦