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  Ottoman Empire - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
With the Mongol Empire extending to west, the Kayı became a puppet and vassal of the Il Khanate of the Mongol Empire.
Sultan Selim I (1512–1520) dramatically expanded the empire's eastern and southern frontiers, defeating the young Safavid Ismail I ruler of Persia in the Battle of Chaldiran, establishing Ottoman rule in Egypt and a naval presence in the Red Sea.
Ultimately, the Ottoman Empire's relatively high degree of tolerance on the level of ethnicity proved to be one of its greatest strengths in integrating the new regions until the rise of nationalism under the Ottoman Empire.
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Sarajevo (Cyrillic: Сарајево; IPA: ['sarajɛʋɔ], in English usually ˌsærəˈjeɪvoʊ) is the capital city and largest urban center of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with an estimated population of 308,558 (as of 2005).
It is built on the Sarajevo valley, in the middle of the Dinaric Alps, and encircled by heavily forested hills and mountains.
Sarajevo is the capital of the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its sub-entity, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of the Sarajevo Canton.
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 Austria Hungary Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sarajevo in the Habsburg Empire - In 1878, the Treaty of Berlin officially gave Bosnia and Herzegovina to Austria-Hungary.
The Habsburgs' hereditary territories, however, were soon separated from this enormous empire when, in 1520, Emperor Charles V left them to the status of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the return to Poland of the Relief of Vienna, and the West.
The Habsburgs' hereditary territories, however, were soon separated from this enormous empire when, in 1520, Emperor Charles V left them to the status of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and history of present-day nations and states.
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 Sarajevo in the Habsburg Empire - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
However, the Austrian occupation of the country was swift, and Sarajevo soon found itself part of the Habsburg realms.
Part of a far more modern and advanced nation than the Ottoman Empire, Sarajevo was quickly westernized and adapted to the standards of the age.
The most famous and remembered event in the history of Habsburg Sarajevo, and perhaps all of Sarajevo's history, is the Assassination in Sarajevo.
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 Ottoman_Empire - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Earlier historiography of the empire was based largely on analysis of Ottoman military victories and defeats; current approaches take a wider perspective, the scope of which includes the social dynamics of territorial growth and dissolution, and examination of economic factors and their role in the empire's eventual stagnation and decline.
The Ottoman Empire in its core, the Kai tribe of Oguz Turks, was part of the westward Turkic migrations from Central Asia that began during the 10th century.
The empire was to submit to a complete partition beginning with the initial ceasefire agreement the Armistice of Mudros chased by occupation of Istanbul; under the shadow of Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919-20 and the Malta exiles followed by the subsequent Treaty of Sčvres.
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 explore - Travel in Vienna | Weekend Break   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
At its peak during the reign of Charles V, the Habsburg Empire spread from Iberia to the Benelux countries, to the Balkans and even to the Americas.
She also travelled alone extensively, which was unusual for a high society female at the time.
She met a tragic end when fatally stabbed by anarchist Luigi Luchani while boarding a steamship at Lake Geneva.
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 Ottoman Empire Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Ottoman empire expanded from a small territory near Constantinople to capture the remnant of the Byzantine empire in the late thirteenth century, reviving many of its institutions and synthesizing an elaborate, centralized Sunni Islamic state.
Britain moved in to guarantee the empire's borders in exchange for Cyprus and occupied Egypt to suppress nationalist unrest and maintain the route to India (1882).
During the early reigns, monopolies of silks, cottons, and metals brought prosperity, but the empire failed to enter an industrial age, relying on favorable tariffs to encourage imports and exports and, in the nineteenth century, on foreign contractors for the construction of railways and telegraph systems.
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 First World War.com - Feature Articles - The Balkan Causes of World War One
His father was dead, and Ilic worked as a newsboy, a theatre usher, a laborer, a railway porter, a stone-worker and a longshoreman while finishing school; later he was a teacher, a bank clerk, and a nurse during the Balkan Wars.
She was scorned by many at court, and their children were out of the line of succession (Franz Ferdinand's brother Otto was next).
By the time the warning reached the Habsburg joint finance minister (the man in charge of Bosnian affairs), any sense of urgency had been lost, and he did nothing to increase security or cancel the heir's planned visit.
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 Ottoman Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Ottoman Empire was the successor to the Byzantine Empire in controlling much of the Balkans, as well as the Anatolian peninsula (modern day Turkey) as well as the countries on the eastern and southern rim of the Mediterranean.
The Ottoman Empire had found its match at the northern boundary of the Balkans in the Austrian Habsburg Empire, and the pawns in the more or less continuous battles between the two empires for the next three centuries were Hungary, Romania, Bosnia and Serbia.
Meanwhile, the Habsburg Empire, pushed southward in the mid-nineteenth century, by the expansionist militarism of Bismark's Prussia, was able to gain control of Bosnia, at the great dismay of the Serbians.
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 Europe’s short-lived empires
But the Habsburgs themselves were not bad at killing, colonial-style, as the gory Duke of Alva proved in repressing the rebellious Dutch, on behalf of Philip II and holy church, in 1567; and as Italy learned under Austrian rule three centuries later.
Their empires were huge indeed: Brazil’s 8.5m square kilometres (not that the Portuguese colonists ever saw much of them) are nearly 100 times the area of mainland Portugal.
The Spanish empire, though far more profitable and subject to a far greater power, lasted even less; essentially, the same period as Portugal’s in Latin America, though Caribbean and Pacific specks remained to be wiped up by the United States in 1898.
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 The Habsburg Dynasty - History
New territories were acquired, which resulted in the Habsburgs, now also the Holy Roman Emperors, ruling much of central Europe including Hungary and Bohemia and Croatia, parts of Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Ukraine, as well as the Netherlands and Spain and its vast overseas possessions.
The Gothic style was popular between the 14th and 16th centuries, as evidenced by the number of imposing buildings with flying buttresses, pointed arches, ribbed ceiling vaults and pigeon toes.
This led to the formation of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary in 1867 under emperor Franz Josef and exclusion from the new German empire unified by Bismarck.
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 Royalty.nu - The Habsburgs
The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire, 1815-1918 by Alan Sked.
The Habsburg Monarchy 1490-1848: Attributes of Empire by Paula Sutter Fichtner.
Examines relations between the Habsburg ruler of Hungary and his subjects from the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1849 to World War I. The Pomp and Politics of Patriotism: Imperial Celebrations in Habsburg, Austria, 1848-1916 by Daniel L. Unowsky.
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 The Balkans
Byzantine Empire: The Byzantine Empire was the main successor state to the unified Roman Empire, which broke up in the late 5th century A.D. The Byzantine Empire's capital was the ancient Greco-Roman city of Byzantium, which was also known as Constantinople, after the Emperor Constantine, who greatly increased the empire's power and prestige.
Ottoman Empire: The Ottoman Empire was an important state which, at its peak, ruled much of the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeastern Europe (the Balkans).
Habsburg Empire: The Habsburg Empire was a great power in Europe from the late Middle Ages until World War I. It was ruled by the Austrian royal family, the Habsburgs, and its capital city was Vienna.
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 The Balkans
Byzantine Empire: The Byzantine Empire was the main successor state to the unified Roman Empire, which broke up in the late 5th century A.D. The Byzantine Empire's capital was the ancient Greco-Roman city of Byzantium, which was also known as Constantinople, after the Emperor Constantine, who greatly increased the empire's power and prestige.
The Ottoman Empire was extremely diverse in national and linguistic terms; in addition to Turks, it was inhabited by large numbers of Arabs, Kurds, Greeks, Serbs, Romanians, Bulgarians, and Albanians.
Habsburg Empire: The Habsburg Empire was a great power in Europe from the late Middle Ages until World War I. It was ruled by the Austrian royal family, the Habsburgs, and its capital city was Vienna.
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 Trenches on the Web - Bio: Emperor Franz Josef   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Politics: The aging monarch had seen the Habsburg Empire lose its holdings in both Italy and Germany until it had become mainly an eastern European power.
Franz Josef was sensitive to these losses and was determined not to allow further decay of the empire by losing Austro-Hungarian holdings in the Balkans to Serbia.
He had numerous difficulties with his nephew and heir, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who would be assassinated by Serbian nationalists on 28-Jun-1914 at a place called Sarajevo.
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 A Brief History of the Habsburg Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
From the end of the 13th century to the middle of the 15th century the Habsburgs expanded their territory by gaining the Duchy of Carinthia (1335), the Earldom of Tyrol and the "Windische Mark" (1365).
The establishment of the Confederation of the Rhine under the auspices of France led to the disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806.
The assassination on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo of the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was only the provocation for the outbreak of the First World War.
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 Trenches on the Web - Timeline: 1871-1914 - Origins of the Great War
But by 1914, with riots and police crackdowns mounting, the view that the Habsburg Empire was on the the verge of disintegration was a widely held one.
Sarajevo was the capital of Bosnia, an Austrian province with a large Serb minority.
He was in Sarajevo to celebrate his fourteenth wedding anniversary as the emperor forbade him from appearing in public with his wife in Vienna.
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 Amazon.ca: Uncrowned Emperor : The Life and Times of Otto Von Habsburg: Books: Gordon Brook-Shepherd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Born heir presumptive to an empire that stretched from the Tyrol to Transylvania, and from Poland to Sarajevo, Otto von Habsburg's life has both affected and been reflected in some of the most dramatic and historic events of the twentieth century.
Otto van Habsburg later became the focus of royalist loyalty, as the Habsburg restoration attracted considerable political support until the Second World War.
He does tend as in his other works to interpret the words and behaviors of Habsburg "enemies" in an extremely unflattering light, whether these were overt and obvious or not.
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 Trenches on the Web - Bio: Archduke Franz Ferdinand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Considered more flexible in matters of military and domestic affairs than his uncle Emperor Franz Josef, he was a reformist with new ideas to be put into practice when he ascended to the Hapsburg throne.
In the years to come, Sophie would not be allowed to ride in the same car with her husband during affairs of state.
Fate: The Archduke and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo on 28-Jun-1914 (their fourteenth wedding anniversary) by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
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 Austria-Hungary - Uncyclopedia
The empire consisted of Austria on the east, Hungary to the west and Bohemia and Slovakia to the north.
Following the assassination of Franz Ferdinand (even the drummer) the empire moved quickly to punish Serbia and presented her with an infamous ultimatum, threatening war if her demands were not met.
The Habsburgs then moved to Iceland (which was too cold for Arnie's special robot-blood) and entered the unusual trade of fishing by Zeppelin.
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 C: The First World War, 1914-1918
On 28 June 1914 the Austrian heir apparent, Franz Ferdinand, was murdered in Sarajevo, the capital of the province Bosnia-Hercegovina, occupied by Austria since 1878 and annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908.
Murders of princes and princesses or heads of state were not unusual, but this one arose special anger in most of Europe, particularly since suspicions existed that the Serb government had had contacts with the terrorist group responsible for the assassination.
The Hungarian and Austrian governments rarely agreed on anything, and the military of the Habsburg monarchy was poorly organized and coordinated.
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 Ancestors and Family of Francis Ferdinand Habsburg-Lotharingen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Franz Ferdinand, Erzherzog Von Österreich-Este, Austrian archduke whose assassination was the immediate cause of World War I. Francis Ferdinand was the eldest son of the archduke Charles Louis, who was the brother of the emperor Francis Joseph.
His plans were based on the realization that any nationalistic policy pursued by one section of the population would endanger the multinational Habsburg empire.
In June 1914 he and his wife were assassinated by the Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip at Sarajevo; a month later World War I began with Austria's declaration of war against Serbia.
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 Bosnia-Hercegovina and the failure of reform in Austria-Hungary
In 1866 the ruling Habsburgs and the conservative state apparatus came to an accomodation with the country's German and Magyar citizens, after barring them from political life since their participation in the liberal national revolutions of 1848.
The Habsburg state declined to act because reducing the power of landowners would have risked political unrest in Bosnia, and created a dangerous precedent for Magyar landlords in Hungary, given their Romanian and Serbia tenants.
However, industrial growth was handled for the benefit of the Habsburg state and the investors, not the local inhabitants.
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 Amazon.com: A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918: Books: Robert A. Kann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918 : A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary by A. Taylor
The permanent affiliation of the Habsburg dynasty, the ruling house in the German Alpine hereditary lands, with the lands of the Bohemian and Hungarain-Croatian crowns in 1526-1527 initiates the beginning of the history of these realms as an over-all political entity.
Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) by Maureen Healy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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 Bibliography of the History of Germany and the Habsburg Empire
Empire and Sovereignty: A History of the Public Law Literature in the Holy Roman Empire, 1599-1804.
The Habsburg and Hohenzollern Dynasties in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
The Survival of the Habsburg Empire: Radetzky, the Imperial Army, and the Class War, 1848.
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The war is the final nail in the coffin of the Congress of Vienna.
June 28, 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to Habsburg Empire, assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, by Bosnian Serb.
Habsburg Empire fell apart, with components declaring themselves national states: Poland; Bohemia, Moravia, Slovaks and some Germans becoming Czechoslovakia; south Slavs creating Yugoslavia around Serbia, with the capital in Belgrade.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Serajevo (Sarajevo)
Bosnia bore a cross tattooed on breast or hand.
Bosnian people to the House of Habsburg marks the beginning of its growth in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in 1908 these two countries were declared part of the empire.
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 ttgapers store - USA - The Uncrowned Emperor: The Life and Times of Otto von Habsburg - Gordon Brook-Shepherd - Product ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph
Emperor Francis Joseph: Life, Death and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire
This error is notable both because it is repeated several times and because Thomas (or Tomas) Masaryk was largely responsible for the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire.
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