Because he might one day rule over many lands, she made him learn many tongues: Hungarian, German, French ... bought Otto a snappy new Steyr. An old Habsburg custom is that the King-Emperor ...

He would be referring to the many events linked to the 850-year history of the Habsburg empire which touched almost ... in all the rest of Europe - German speaking, central Europe, Balkans ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Natasha Wheatley on the transformation of the Habsburg Empire from a multinational collection of polities to discrete nation-states. Derek Davison and Daniel ...

Ferdinand II, who had inherited the Austrian branch of the Habsburg lands Charles ... a rival able to intervene in Italy and Germany, while the Ottoman Empire posed a danger from the southeast.

His financial empire reshaped Europe, funding the rise of the Habsburg dynasty and influencing the outcome of wars, elections, and empires. From the Battle of Pavia to the crowning of Maximilian I ...

Implicitly linking the Habsburg empire’s treatment of minorities with that seen in Hitler’s Germany or Stalin’s Russia is thus a grave misrepresentation.

Breaking with traditional histories that take 1918 as a strict line of demarcation, this collection focuses on the complexities that attended the transition from the Habsburg Empire to its successor ...

VIENNA, Austria — Otto von Habsburg was laid to rest Saturday in ... The last crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian empire, who never ascended the throne, was laid out in Saint Stephen’s ...

The diversion of German resources had crucial effects on the Western Front. The war turned from one of movement to meat-grinder stalemate. When it was over, the Habsburg and their empire were gone.

in 1848 and dedicated to Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, a beloved officer of the Habsburg ... where German, Polish, Yiddish and Ukrainian were all spoken. After the empire died, Brody ...

Otto von Habsburg only relinquished his claim to the fallen Austro-Hungarian empire in 1961 The eldest son of the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian empire has died in Germany at the age of 98.