Category:Coats of arms of the Grand Principality of Transylvania (1765)

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Having created the "Grand Principality of Transylvania" in 1765 w:Maria Theresa (the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Galicia and Lodomeria, the Austrian Netherlands, Parma and by marriage, Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Holy Roman Empress) standardized the coat of arms, introducing definitive tinctures and adding the fess gules, and rendering the previous crescent as a decrescent. It appeared on the third great seal of Maria Theresa, which combined all her German-Austrian and Hungarian provincial coats of arms. The 7 towers refer to Siebenbürgen ("Seven Cities", the seven fortified cities of the Transylvanian Saxons), the German name for Transylvania

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