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  Austria-Hungary - LoveToKnow 1911
Frederick, however, who was in Italy, harassed and afflicted, could do little to assert the imperial authority, and his enemy, Pope Innocent IV., bestowed the two duchies upon Hermann VI., margrave of Baden, whose wife, Gertrude, was a niece of the last of the Babenbergs.
Austria and Spain were thus divided, and, in spite of the efforts of the archduke Charles in the Spanish Succession War, were never again united, for at the battle of Mohacs, on the 28th of August 1526, Suleiman the Mohacs Magnificent defeated and killed Louis, king of Bohemia and its g g results.
But Frederick was unwilling to break with Russia, with whom he was negotiating the partition of Poland; Austria in these circumstances dared not take the offensive; and Maria Theresa was compelled to purchase the modification of the extreme claims of Russia in Turkey by agreeing to, and sharing in, the spoliation of Poland.
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 Austria - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Austria is located at the crossroads of Europe; Vienna is at the gate of the Danubian plain, and the Brenner Pass in W Austria links Germany and Italy.
Austria captured world attention in 1986 when former UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim was elected president despite allegations that he had been involved in atrocities as a German army staff officer in the Balkans during World War II.
Austria was quickly ostracized by other EU nations because of the Freedom party's participation in the government, and Haider—who had not joined the government—subsequently resigned as party leader.
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 History of Austria
In 1154 the Privilegium Minus elevated Austria to the status of a duchy ruled by the Babenberg family.
Austria was ruled by the Habsburgs for the next 640 years.
In 1438, Duke Albert V of Austria was chosen as the successor to his father-in-law, Emperor Sigismund.
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 Frederick House
Frederick I of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195-1198
Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg), ''the Handsome'', (1286-1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans as Frederick (III).
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, (1750-1827), Elector (1763-1806)
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 Flag of Austria - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
According to legend, the flag was invented by Duke Leopold V of Austria (1157-1194) while he was involved in a fierce battle during the Crusades.
In fact, the flag was designed in the 13th century by Duke Frederick II of Austria (1210-1246; known as 'Frederick the Quarrelsome'), the last of the Babenberg dynasty.
The oldest source for the new flag is contained in a seal kept in the monastery of Lilienfeld (Lower Austria), dated November 30, 1230.
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 List of rulers of Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
- Leopold VI of Austria (1198 - 1230)
- Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (1662 - 1665)
- Ferdinand I of Austria (1835 - 1848)
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 List of rulers of Austria - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Austria became one of the marches (in later times sometimes called the Ostmark) of the Holy Roman Empire after the Battle of Lechfeld in 955, and was given a margrave around 960.
In the Privilegium Maius of 1359, Rudolf attempted to elevate Austria to an archduchy.
Francis I (1792-1835) (Emperor of Austria from 1804)
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 Regional > Europe > Austria
Austria occurs as parliamentary representative democracy consisting of nine federal states and is one of 2 European countries that use at times declared their everlasting neutrality, the more existence Switzerland.
Fallowing Duke Frederick II died in 1246 and left no successor, a German King Rudolf I of Habsburg gave a lands to his sons marking the beginning of the line of the Habsburgs, who continued to govern Austria until a 20th century.
When you took a 14th and 15th century Austria continued to expand its territory until it reached the position of a European major power at the prevent of the 15th century until the prevent of the Habsburg monarchy around 1918.
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 Wikinfo | Frederick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Frederick is Friedrich in German and Frederik in Danish.
Frederick I of Prussia, (1657-1713), Elector of Brandenburg (1688-1713), King in Prussia (1701-1713)
Frederick I of Württemberg, (1754-1816), Duke (1797-1803), Elector (1803-1806), and King (1806-1816) of Württemberg
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 Austria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
After the death (1246) of the last Babenberg, King Ottocar II of Bohemia acquired (1251–69) Austria, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola.
During the long reign of Frederick III (1440–93), the protracted Hapsburg wars with France began.
The Congress of Vienna (1814–15; see Vienna, Congress of) did not restore to Austria its former possessions in the Netherlands and in Baden but awarded it Lombardy, Venetia, Istria, and Dalmatia.
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 Austria
Austria is a parliamentary representative democracy consisting of nine federal states and is one of six European countries that have declared permanent neutral country neutrality and one of the few countries that included the concept of everlasting neutrality in their constitution.
After Frederick II, Duke of Austria died in 1246 and left no successor, Rudolf I of Habsburg gave the lands to his sons marking the beginning of the line of the Habsburgs, who continued to govern Austria until the 20th century.
Austria was the cradle of numerous scientists including physicists Ludwig Boltzmann, Lise Meitner, Erwin Schrödinger, Ernst Mach, Wolfgang Pauli, Richard von Mises and Christian Doppler, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, biologists Gregor Mendel and Konrad Lorenz as well as mathematician Kurt Gödel.
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 Walther von der Vogelweide - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Tirol was at this time the home of several noted Minnesingers; and the court of Vienna, under the enlightened duke Frederick I of the house of Babenberg, had become a centre of poetry and art.
From the new emperor his genius and his zeal for the empire at last received recognition; and a small fief in Franconia was bestowed upon him, which, though he complained that its value was little, gave him the home and the fixed position he had so long desired.
That Frederick gave him an even more signal mark of his favour by making him the tutor of his son Henry VII, is more than doubtful.
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 AUSTRIA - HUNGARY
Austria began as a frontier land of Charlemagne's empire and rose to be the chief German state, ruling many neighboring peoples.
After Frederick's death his lands were divided; they eventually came under the control of the Hapsburg king of Germany, Rudolph I. The Hapsburgs' power mounted when Albert V was crowned Holy Roman emperor as Albert II in 1438.
Frederick's son Maximilian I, crowned emperor in 1493, married Mary, daughter of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy and ruler of the Netherlands.
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 Frederick Colorado
1) " Frederick" -- In the context of Frederick Colorado
Frederick I of Austria(Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195 - 1198
Frederick I of Austria(Habsburg), the Handsome, (1286-1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans as Frederick (III).
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 The Danube in Austria
Currently the fortress is a stronghold of the Duke of Austria of the Babenberg family.
When the Duke of Austria captured and imprisoned King Richard the Lionhearted of England during the Third Crusade, he imprisoned the monarch here at Dürnstein (during Richard's stay, until 1193, the king had an illustrious affair with the beautiful musician Blondel).
Its church is dedicated to St. Stephen, with a Romanesque doorway, framed with two towers with busts of the twelve apostles, and surrounded by the symbol of the Holy Roman Empire (a double-headed eagle).
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 Factpage
Austria is a parliamentary representative democracy consisting of nine federal states and is one of two European countries that have declared their everlasting neutrality.
In fact, the flag was designed in the 13th century by Duke Frederick II of Austria (1210-1246; known as ' Frederick the Quarrelsome'), the last of the Babenberg dynasty.
On the chest of the eagle is located the old shield of the Duchy of Austria, this same design forms the basis for the flag of Austria.
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 Frederick
Frederick County is located at the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and is bordered by West Virginia to the north and west.
Frederick County is a county located in the western part of the...
Frederick, Maryland is a city in Frederick County, Maryland, of which it is the county seat...
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 Mighty Monarchs VI (Austria) quiz
The leadership of the German contingents had fallen on him after the deaths of Frederick I, Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, and his son, Frederick, Duke of Swabia, in 1190 AD and 1191 AD respectively.
Upon the death of Duke Frederick II, the Fighter, in 1246 AD, the Babenberg dynasty ended and direct imperial control over the Duchy was imposed by this Holy Roman Emperor.
In 1253 AD this King of Bohemia claimed the Duchy of Austria through his marriage to Margaret, sister of the late duke, Frederick II, the Fighter.
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 Frederick City Jobs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Frederick, Frederik, or Frideric is a common male forename.
Frederick V of Denmark (1723-1766), King of Denmark and Norway
Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-1751), the eldest son of King George II Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750-1827), Elector and King of Saxony
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 Babenberg - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Holy Roman Emperor Otto II created Count Leopold of Babenberg margrave of the Eastern March (i.e., Austria).
Duke Leopold V took part in the Third Crusade and later made Richard I of England a prisoner.
Restless corpses: `secondary burial' in the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties.
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 Columbia Encyclopedia- Austria - AOL Research & Learn
The treaties of Campo Formio (1797) and Lunéville (1801) preluded the dissolution (1806) of the Holy Roman Empire, and in 1804, Francis II took the title Francis I, emperor of Austria.
His rout at Austerlitz (1805) led to the severe Treaty of Pressburg (see Pressburg, Treaty of).
The electoral results complicated the formation of a stable new government, which was only achieved in Feb., 2000, when Wolfgang Schüssel of the People's party became chancellor of a People's party–Freedom party coalition.
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 The Orthodox Church in Austria | Austrian Press and Information Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Tradition has it that the origin ol the Greek community in Vienna and Austria goes back to the marriage of three Byzantine princesses into the Babenberg dynast}-: Theodora Comnena to Henry II Jasomirgott (1148), Theodora Angelos to Leopold VI the Glorious (1203), and Sophia Laskans to Frederick II the Contentious (1220).
Tsiters successor as Metropolitan of Austria and Exarch of Hungary and Central Europe was Archbishop Michael Staikos.
In the spirit of the Ecumenical Movement, the Greek Oriental Church in Austria does much to further the dialogue between the Christian churches within the framework of the Pro Oriente endowment set up by Cardinal Franz Konig and the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Austria.
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 Central Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Western civilization owes an enormous debt to Janos Hunyadi; when Sultan Mohammed II sought to capitalize on his conquest of Constantinople by a campaign through the Balkans and into central Europe, Hunyadi stopped him cold at the seige of Belgrade (1456), with a mixed force of professional troops and untrained levies.
They long served Austria and the Empire and were raised to the status of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1608.
To Switzerland thereafter (Bellinzona district to 1798, Canton of Lugano 1798-1803, Canton of Ticino from 1803.)
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* Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195-1198
* Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg) (1286-1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans
* Frederick I of Prussia (1657-1713), Elector of Brandenburg
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 Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most Austrians do not view themselves as German.
^ Statistik Austria, Die Bevölkerung nach Umgangssprache, Staatsangehörigkei und Geburtsland (PDF) Page 75
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