page_title: March (territory)
section_title: Habsburg Empire
hierarchical_section_title: March (territory) / Frankish Empire and successor states / Habsburg Empire
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Karte der österreichischen Militärgrenze aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. English: Historic map of the military frontier of Austria-Hungary, also named Krajina, and of Vojvodina Français&#160;: Carte historique des confins militaires en Autriche-Hongrie aussi appelé Krajina
context_page_description: In medieval Europe, a march or mark was, in broad terms, any kind of borderland, as opposed to a national "heartland". More specifically, a march was a border between realms, and/or a neutral/buffer zone under joint control of two states, in which different laws might apply. In both of these senses, marches served a political purpose, such as providing warning of military incursions, or regulating cross-border trade, or both.
  Just as counties were traditionally ruled by counts, marches gave rise to titles such as marquess or marchioness in England, marquis or marquise in France and Scotland, margrave or margravine in Germany, and corresponding titles in other European states.
caption: Map of the Military Frontier against incursions from the Ottoman Empire in the middle of the 19th century (marked with a red outline)
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