This accommodation set the tone for the posture of pride and patriotism assumed by most Viennese Jews towards the Hapsburg monarchy and Vienna.

Now the East European region once contested by the Hapsburg monarchy and its neighbors, with its complicated patterns of tribe and language, is in turmoil once again, with consequences that are unpredictable.

During his reign, Albert strengthened the Hapsburg dynasty through territorial conquest, but failed to establish a hereditary Hapsburg monarchy in Germany.

He began working as a livestock merchant, trading over the border with the Hapsburg monarchy.

"The years from 1900 to 1914, they were the last years of the Hapsburg monarchy," said Dr. Linksz, who grew up in a tiny town on the plains of Hungary.

In the early 19th century, the integrity of the Hapsburg monarchy was a key to Russia's security.

Until the middle of the 19th century the Hapsburg monarchy balanced its expanding northern neighbor Prussia.

It is with the Prussian defeat of the Hapsburg monarchy in 1866, and that monarchy's subsequent decline, that the growth of Germany's hegemony in central Europe can be correlated.

Johann Ludwig Brassicanus (1509 - 3 June 1549) was an advisor to the Hapsburg monarchy.

A gift from Egypt to the Imperial Menagerie at the palace of Schönbrunn - the summer home of the Hapsburg monarchy - the animal caused a sensation.