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Geographically and demographically in the medieval period Bavaria was in a better position than Austria yet it was Austria that rose to prominence and then to great power status after that. Was it the Habsburg influence or something else. Before people start commenting about the Burgundian and Spanish inheritance I'm talking about the period before that when Austria was able to still compete with Hungary and France.