In 1648 he was again victorious over a Habsburg army under Archduke Leopold Wilhelm at Lens. |
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The Italian branches of the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasties were severed from their parent houses. |
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The Habsburg Monarchy was strained by the demands of different nationalities for autonomy. |
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In 1740 war came again as the result of another succession crisis when the male line of the Habsburg dynasty came to an end. |
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In 1910, this Habsburg crownland was inhabited by roughly one million German-speaking Styrians and 400,000 Slovenes. |
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Between 1554 and 1556, when he became the major provisioner of Habsburg troops, he made a second fortune profiteering from the war with France. |
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Where once the Habsburg provinces had been among the most stable in Italy, they now became a centre of agitation. |
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The Habsburg emperors had no consistent plan for reconstructing their government. |
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In 1918, with the abdication of the last Habsburg, Karl I, the modern Republic of Austria was founded. |
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Under Habsburg rule, it was the fourth largest city in the Austro-Hungarian empire. |
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When World War I and the Russian revolution shattered the Habsburg and Russian empires, Ukrainians declared independent statehood. |
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In April 1701 an Austrian Habsburg army invaded Lombardy, bent on conquering Milan for the archduke Charles, Leopold's second son. |
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The Press spoke of it in terms that could as well have been applied to a marriage between a Habsburg and a Bourbon. |
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Eventually Archduke Otto, while remaining head of the Habsburg family, stopped using his titles. |
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Given his proven record in command, Franz Josef selected Benedek to command the Habsburg North Army in early 1866 when war with Prussia threatened. |
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Marie-Antoinette was a Habsburg, and thus from the moment of her arrival in France in 1770 the bugbear of the Richelieu-d'Aiguillon faction, which hated the Austrian alliance. |
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She wrote these novels in the 1920s in German about the end of the Habsburg empire. |
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In the east, in Prussia, Poland, Russia, and the eastern provinces of the Habsburg Monarchy, most of the rural population was bound to the soil and their lords as serfs. |
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Vienna, the seat of the once-mighty Habsburg Empire, is a good place to contemplate the rise and fall of global powers. |
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The Habsburg and Hohenzollern dynasties abdicated, following the Romanovs. |
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The Habsburg army, however, Watson contends, were exceptionally bloodthirsty. |
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Rather than a Hollywood Rat Pack, we might think of them as the Habsburg Wrath Pack. |
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The head of the family and pretender to the throne, Otto von Habsburg, was also promised Muerzsteg Castle, which is today the summer seat of the Austrian head of state. |
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Henri inherited a bitterly divided nation, ravaged by international and civil war, beset on all sides by the mighty Habsburg empire, and bankrupt. |
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The entire area passed in 1384 to the dukes of Burgundy, in 1477 to the Habsburg dynasty, and in 1556 to the kings of Spain. |
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Eventually, the Commonwealth was partitioned in 1772, 1792, and 1795 by the Russian Empire, Prussia, and Habsburg Austria. |
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At the end of the 17th century the Habsburgs won decisive battles against the Ottomans, and most of the plain gradually came under Habsburg rule. |
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Also, in resolving political hostilities with the German emperor Frederick III of Habsburg, he invaded his western domains. |
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Prosperity returned to Alsace under Habsburg administration during the Renaissance. |
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The most imperial journeys throughout time were those of the Habsburg family. |
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Although Albert himself only reigned for a year, henceforth every emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was a Habsburg, with only one exception. |
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In 1775, Moldavia lost to the Habsburg Empire its northwestern part, which became known as Bukovina. |
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The custom of granting titles was introduced to Hungary in the 16th century by the House of Habsburg. |
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Among his descendants are several royal dynasties, including the Habsburg, Capetian and Plantagenet dynasties. |
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The Habsburg Emperors focused on consolidating their own estates in Austria and elsewhere. |
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Following Mary's marriage to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, the Netherlands were now part of the Habsburg lands. |
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However, from 1440 to 1740, a Habsburg was always elected emperor, the throne becoming unofficially hereditary. |
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The English term Austrians was applied to the population of Habsburg Austria from the 17th or 18th century. |
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The last year of World War I saw the collapse of Habsburg authority throughout an increasingly greater part of its empire. |
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Isabella's only son, John, married Margaret of Austria, maintaining ties with the Habsburg dynasty, on which Spain relied heavily. |
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Most of the Low Countries had come under the rule of the House of Burgundy and subsequently the House of Habsburg. |
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Despite the two Kingdoms being in a personal union under the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasts, they remained constitutionally separate. |
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During the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, Spain pursued alliances through marriage with Portugal, Habsburg Austria, and Burgundy. |
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While Philip was also a German archduke of the House of Habsburg, he was seen as a foreigner in the Holy Roman Empire. |
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By the end of the wars in 1559, Habsburg Spain had been established as the premier power of Europe, to the detriment of France. |
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He ended French Valois ambitions in Italy and brought about the Habsburg ascendency in Europe. |
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They eventually were able to oust the Habsburg armies, and in 1581 they established the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. |
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In the decades preceding the war, the Dutch became increasingly discontented with Habsburg rule. |
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With Bruges, the city led two revolts against Maximilian of Austria, the first monarch of the House of Habsburg to rule Flanders. |
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During this time, the Habsburg Empire sometimes covertly hired Cossack raiders to go against the Ottomans to ease pressure on their own borders. |
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In 1477 the Duchy of Brabant became part of the House of Habsburg as part of the dowry of Mary of Burgundy. |
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The subsequent history of Brabant is part of the history of the Habsburg Seventeen Provinces. |
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The southern part remained in Spanish Habsburg hands as a part of the Southern Netherlands. |
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However, they had failed to change the balance of power in Italy, or break the Habsburg encirclement. |
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Habsburg tradition insists that the protoplast of the family was called Guntram. |
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The Habsburg years also ushered in the Spanish Golden Age of cultural efflorescence. |
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Her husband Philip I was the Habsburg son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy. |
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The Habsburg kings regarded their colonies as feudal associations rather than integral parts of Spain. |
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It now seemed that the Republic would end up as either a Habsburg possession or a French protectorate. |
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When Mary of Burgundy, granddaughter of Philip the Good married Maximilian I, the Low Countries became Habsburg territory. |
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The Holy Roman Empire was unified with Spain under the Habsburg Dynasty after Charles V inherited several domains. |
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By November 1790, the revolt had been crushed and the Habsburg Monarchy had returned to power. |
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After her pseudocyesis, Philip left to wage war on the French and protect the Habsburg Low countries and returned only once. |
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The image was based on the use of the pillars in Spanish and Habsburg propaganda. |
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Charles' marriage to Anne of Brittany prevented a future total Habsburg encirclement of France. |
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The Spanish princes married the heirs of Portugal, England and the House of Habsburg. |
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The Genoese bankers provided the unwieldy Habsburg system with fluid credit and a dependably regular income. |
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Don Balthasar believed that the key to restraining the resurgent French and eliminating the Dutch was a closer alliance with Habsburg Austria. |
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Also, the ineffective Spanish Habsburg government took no action to improve them. |
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The next phase of the campaign featured the French invasion of the Habsburg heartlands. |
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German was the language of commerce and government in the Habsburg Empire, which encompassed a large area of Central and Eastern Europe. |
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In addition, Habsburg trade in the Mediterranean was consistently disrupted by the Ottoman Empire. |
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After the death of his paternal grandfather, Maximilian, in 1519, Charles inherited the Habsburg Monarchy. |
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The Habsburg Emperor secured the match for his son, the future Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, with the aid of Mary's stepmother, Margaret. |
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By 1630 he was described as the court painter of the Habsburg Governor of Flanders, the Archduchess Isabella. |
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Protestants were persecuted under the Habsburg monarchy, which controlled the region and eventually managed to recatholicize it. |
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To this list could be added the hegemony of Habsburg Spain in 16th century Europe. |
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Austria and Hungary signed separate armistices following the overthrow of the Habsburg Monarchy. |
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France and the Ottoman Empire, united by mutual opposition to Habsburg rule, became strong allies. |
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By contrast, the Habsburg frontier had settled somewhat, a stalemate caused by a stiffening of the Habsburg defences. |
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From 1740, the dualism between the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy and the Kingdom of Prussia dominated the German history. |
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Also, by promising to vote for Joseph II in the Imperial elections, Frederick II accepted the Habsburg preeminence in the Holy Roman Empire. |
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This was largely caused by the sudden influx of gold and silver from the New World into Habsburg Spain. |
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The Austrian Habsburgs of the 16th century, the founders of the central European Habsburg Monarchy, were buried in Prague. |
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In the 1560s many Frisans joined the revolt led by William of Orange against the Habsburg monarchy. |
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These complicated operations in the Low Countries had left the overall Spanish Habsburg forces and finances in a precarious situation. |
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Following the Campaigns of 1794 of the French Revolutionary Wars, Belgium Austriacum was invaded and annexed by France in 1795, ending Habsburg rule. |
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In 1663, Louis XIV of France stated his claim to portions of the Habsburg Southern Netherlands, leading to a short rapprochement between England and the Republic. |
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Pope Clement VII switched sides and now joined forces with France and prominent Italian states against the Habsburg Emperor, in the War of the League of Cognac. |
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The accumulation of so much power by one man and one dynasty greatly concerned Francis I of France, who found himself surrounded by Habsburg territories. |
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In 1519, with the death of his paternal grandfather Maximilian I, Charles inherited the Habsburg territories in Germany, and was duly elected as Holy Roman Emperor that year. |
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A major cause of this discontent was heavy taxation imposed on the population, while support and guidance from the government was hampered by the size of the Habsburg empire. |
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At the Cortes of Tomar in 1581, Philip was crowned Philip I of Portugal, uniting the two crowns and overseas empires under Spanish Habsburg rule in a dynastic Iberian Union. |
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On October 16, 1918, emperor Karl I invited the nations of Austria to create national councils, with the aim to instigate a restructuring of the state under Habsburg rule. |
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Habsburg influence over the German Confederation, which was strongest in the southern member states, was rivalled by the increasingly powerful Prussian state. |
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In both cases, the Swiss profited from weakness in the Habsburg dukes. |
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Emperor Charles VI relinquished many of the gains the empire made in the previous years, largely due to his apprehensions at the imminent extinction of the House of Habsburg. |
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Since Sigismund had no male heir, the Duchy became part of the Burgundian Circle and then one of the Seventeen Provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands. |
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Following the Treaty of Utrecht, in 1713, the Spanish sovereignty over the Southern Netherlands was transferred to the Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg. |
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In parallel, Wallachia became the battleground in a succession of wars between the Ottomans on one side and Russia or the Habsburg Monarchy on the other. |
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As a result, the Cross of Burgundy has appeared in a wide variety of flags connected with territories formerly part of the Burgundian or Habsburg inheritance. |
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The Duchy of Burgundy, forming a large part of eastern France and the Low Countries, was inherited by the House of Habsburg on the extinction of the Valois ducal line. |
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After 1526 Bohemia came increasingly under Habsburg control as the Habsburgs became first the elected and then in 1627 the hereditary rulers of Bohemia. |
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The Russian Empire stood to benefit from the decline, whereas the Habsburg Empire and Britain perceived the preservation of the Ottoman Empire to be in their best interests. |
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However, the annexed territories though incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg Realm, were not legally considered as a part of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Having no male heirs, he had convinced the Electors to retain Habsburg hegemony in the office of the emperor by agreeing to the Pragmatic Sanction. |
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However, during a long period of peace from 1740 to 1768, the Ottoman military system fell behind that of their European rivals, the Habsburg and Russian Empires. |
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Charles suffered from an enlarged lower jaw, a deformity that became considerably worse in later Habsburg generations, giving rise to the term Habsburg jaw. |
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Charles was born in 1500 as the eldest son of Philip the Handsome and Joanna of Castile in the Flemish city of Ghent, which was part of the Habsburg Netherlands. |
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He was therefore childless, and in his final will he left his throne to a French prince, the Bourbon Philip of Anjou, rather than to a fellow Habsburg, albeit from Austria. |
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With the ascent of Charles I in 1516 and his election as sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire in 1519, Francis I of France found himself surrounded by Habsburg territories. |
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Being the most powerful European monarch at a time full of war and religious conflicts, the Habsburg rulers spent the wealth in wars and arts across Europe. |
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