The Habsburg Dynasty's entire tenure was marked with grandeur. The royals of this family had collected several jewels, which for many is the stuff of dreams. The empire's downfall caused many of these ...
On Nov. 1, 1921, the last Habsburg emperor of Austria-Hungary, Charles I, left Vienna for good. His empire, the second-largest state in Europe, had already disintegrated at the end of the First World ...
A century has passed since the demise of the Habsburg Empire and the birth of Yugoslavia, and for the last hundred years, historians have tried to make sense of this change. I strive to answer the ...
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A history beneath stone: The Habsburg imperial crypt (part 1)

Death is called the great equalizer. And while everyone must die, if you’re a Holy Roman Emperor eternal rest comes with some ...
This three-episode miniseries chronicles the rise and fall of the Habsburg Empire, one of the most powerful European empires in history. The Habsburg Empire lasted throughout the second millennium and ...
The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet this transformed ...
The archduke of Austria, Eduard Habsburg, who serves as Hungary’s ambassador to the Vatican, stopped in Washington, D.C., last week to talk about his new book about his famous family that he says he ...