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What did Austria gain under the Treaty of Teschen in 1779?
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Joseph II, Holy Roman emperor, detail of a painting by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1769; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Under the Treaty of Teschen, signed on May 13, 1779, to end the War of the Bavarian Succession, Austria received the Inn district. This territory represented only a small fraction of the lands Joseph II had originally sought to acquire in Bavaria following the failure of the Wittelsbach electoral line.1