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Dutch
Etymology
From Rhine Franconian kreytz, compare German Kreis.
Noun
kreits m (plural kreitsen)
- (poetic, archaic) circle
- (history) imperial circle (administrative grouping of the Holy Roman Empire)
2009 January 9, Jan Blokker, “De Opstand is het sjabloon van alle revoluties [The Dutch Revolt is the template for all revolutions]”, in NRC Handelsblad, retrieved 10 October 2023:Arnade begint zijn boek bij de Bourgondiërs, met hun ideaal van een door eigen hertogen geleide bestuurlijke eenheid die van Autun tot ongeveer Dokkum zou reiken. Dat ideaal lieten ze niet verdampen toen ze bij de Habsburgers ingetrouwd raakten (of de Habsburgers bij hen): keizer Karel V had rond 1550 iets op papier dat de facto misschien niet veel voorstelde, maar wel een ‘Bourgondische Kreits’ mocht heten – een ‘administratie’ waartegen met name Friezen en Geldersen zich altijd zijn blijven verzetten.- Arnade begins his book with the Burgundians, with their ideal of an administrative unit led by their own dukes that would stretch from Autun to roughly Dokkum. They didn't let that ideal evaporate when they became in-laws to the Habsburgs (or the Habsburgs to them): around 1550, Emperor Charles V had drawn up something on paper that may not have amounted to much de facto, but was allowed to be called a 'Burgundian Circle' - an 'administration' that Frisians and Gelderlanders, in particular, always continued to oppose.