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  • 29, 1780) was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary ... She was the eldest daughter of Emperor Charles VI, who promulgated ...
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  • official use) was an important ruling house of Europe and is most well known ... Vienna, the elegant, artistic, and intellectually creative capital ...
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  • The Treaty of Utrecht that established the Peace of Utrecht, rather ... The treaties were concluded between the representatives of Louis XIV ...
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  • Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna is one of the most important cultural ... Schönbrunn was built to be on a par with the Palace of Versailles ...
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  • ) (June 20, 1566 – April 30, 1632) was Grand Duke of Lithuania and ... (1573–1598), daughter of Archduke Charles II of Austria (1540–1590) and ...
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  • The Semmering Railway, in Austria, which starts at Gloggnitz and leads ... It is still fully functional as a part of the Austrian Southern Railway ...
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  • The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major European ... and was marked by the military leadership of notable generals such as the ...
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  • The Jagiellons were a royal dynasty originating from Lithuanian House ... in distaff line as the Eastern branch of the House of Habsburg. When ...
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  • von Taaffe; 11th Viscount Taaffe and Baron of Ballymote, in the peerage of ... to the democratization process in Austria. Although himself an aristocrat ...
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  • Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria (January 30, 1894 – August 28, 1943 ... Boris died in 1943 during World War II and the Communists were able ...
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  • The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality ... for its success in preventing the loss of western Ukrainian lands to ...
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  • Charles I of Hungary (1288, Naples, Italy – July 16, 1342, Visegrád ... Poland and Bohemia against the Habsburgs. Charles also endeavored to enforce ...
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  • Charles Le Brun (February 24, 1619 – February 22, 1690) was a true ... Le Brun was given leave to create some of the most impressive masterpieces ...
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  • and a famous Nazi collaborator as president of Slovakia during World War II ... Tiso's role in the treatment of Slovak Jews during the war has ...
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  • comprising the western and central thirds of the Czech Republic. It has ... whose helm it also became an autonomous part of the Holy Roman Empire after ...
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  • later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State in 1616. Richelieu soon ... The Cardinal de Richelieu was often known by the title of the King ...
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  • di San Luca, and was associated with some of the leading artists of his ... Wright is currently rated as one of the leading indigenous British ...
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  • June 14, 1970), a Polish philosopher and one of the most important philosophers ... Ingarden was critical to positivism and all forms of relativism, including ...
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  • The House of Hohenzollern is a noble family and royal dynasty of Prince ... Social unrest at the end of World War I led to the German Revolution ...
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  • and was known as the "Royal Church of St. Mary at Aachen" during ... The Cathedral of Aachen is one of the best-known architectural monuments ...
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