Early Reformation (1525-1530)
The Catholic Church was already compromised in Bohemia and Moravia due to Basel Compacts and Religious peace at Kutna Hora, and other arrangements. These states are marked in bright green. Some semi-autonomous lands in both Lusatias (i.e. individual possessions in Lower Lusatia) and Silesia (i.e. Duchy of Liegnitz, Duchy of Brieg, Duchy of Wohlau, Duchy of Jägerndorf) that adopted Lutheranism before 1530 are not marked as in the end they were accountable/answered to the Bohemian king (who allowed confessional differences only in Bohemia and Moravia due to Hussite-related treaties) and remained a Catholic (and since 1526, he was a Habsburg).
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Lists of states that took part in:
1. League of Torgau (1526)2. Protestation at Speyer (1529)
3. Signatories of the Augsburg Confession (1530)
4. History (i.e. Sweden, 1527; Ducal Prussia, 1525)
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