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 == Background ==
-Upon the terms of the [[Golden Bull of 1098]], the portions of the [[Kingdom of Dericania]] west of the [[Magnag]] and [[Ionian Highlands|Ionian Mountains]] became the Kingdom of Urcea within the Empire, with its borders somewhat resembling the modern day border of [[Urcea]] subtracting those ruled by the [[Kingdom of Gassavelia]]. Not unlike the [[Kingdom of Dericania]], however, the extent of this so-called "Imperial Kingdom" should not be understood to mean a cohesive political unit; the political authority of the Apostolic King was still almost entirely limited to those domains he held directly in his own name. The vassals of the "Imperial Kingdom" owed the King their vassalage and he owed them protection from outside incursion, but beyond the prestige effects and political authority that the Kingship granted, it incurred more responsibility for the former [[Apostolic King of Urcea|Prince-Archduke of Urceopolis]] than territorial benefit.
+Upon the terms of the [[Golden Bull of 1098]], the [[Southern Kingdom of the Levantines]] became the Kingdom of Urcea within the Empire, with its borders somewhat resembling the modern day border of [[Urcea]] subtracting those ruled by the [[Kingdom of Gassavelia]]. Not unlike the [[Kingdom of Dericania]], however, the extent of this so-called "Imperial Kingdom" should not be understood to mean a cohesive political unit; the political authority of the Apostolic King was still almost entirely limited to those domains he held directly in his own name. The vassals of the "Imperial Kingdom" owed the King their vassalage and he owed them protection from outside incursion, but beyond the prestige effects and political authority that the Kingship granted, it incurred more responsibility for the former [[Apostolic King of Urcea|Prince-Archduke of Urceopolis]] than territorial benefit.
 The distinction between the legal entity of Urcea within the Holy Levantine Empire and the Urcean Crown is typically applicable only to the period prior to the [[Great Confessional War]]. During the rule of the House of the Protestant Julio-Angloise, all vassals within the Imperial Kingdom of Urcea were given Imperial immediacy. This action maintained the existence of the Imperial Kingdom de jure, but had the effect of making it functionally coterminous with [[Urcea]] as a political entity, thus depreciating the need to create a distinction between the two.