May 1703. It had been four years since the Peace of Karlowitz ended the Great Turkish War. The Ottoman Empire yielded the ...

Six days after the death in 1922 of his father—Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs—little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius ...

The Hungarian Historical Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, Austria-Hungary and the Balkans – from the Perspectives of New Imperial History (2022), pp. 422-444 (23 pages) In this essay, I situate the Habsburg ...

Death is known as the great equalizer, and for the Holy Roman Emperors, eternal rest comes with elaborate perks. Since 1633, ...

As Richard Bassett’s superb book For God and Kaiser shows, Austria’s army expressed the idea that dynastic, cultural and economic relations were more important than national identity. Richard Bassett, ...

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 ...

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra will present “New Year Celebration: Vienna of the Habsburg Dynasty,” on 29 & 30 December 2025. This year-end programme invites audiences to experience the charm ...

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