 There were also parts of the realm where the Jews were treated better, such as Trieste, Gorizia and Vorarlberg.Policies of Maria Theresa's government towards their Eastern Orthodox subjects were marked by special interests, relating not only to complex religious situation in various southern and eastern regions of the Habsburg Monarchy, inhabited by Eastern Orthodox Christians, mainly Serbs and Romanians, but also regarding the political aspirations of Habsburg court towards several neighbouring lands and regions in Southeastern Europe, still held by the declining Ottoman Empire and also inhabited by Eastern Orthodox population.Maria Theresa's government confirmed (1743) and continued to uphold old privileges, granted to their Eastern Orthodox subjects by previous Habsburg monarchs (emperors Leopold I, Joseph I and Charles VI), but at the same time new reforms were enforced, establishing much firmer state control over the Eastern Orthodox Metropolitanate of Karlovci.