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Habsburg (or Hapsburg)European royal family, former imperial house of Austria-Hungary. A Habsburg, Rudolf I, became king of Germany in 1273 and began the family's control of Austria and Styria. They acquired a series of lands and titles, including that of Holy Roman Emperor which they held during 1273-91, 1298-1308, 1438-1740, and 1745-1806. The Habsburgs reached the zenith of their power under the emperor Charles V (1519-1556) who divided his lands, creating an Austrian Habsburg line (which ruled until 1918) and a Spanish line (which ruled to 1700). The name comes from the family castle in Aargau, Switzerland. |
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| Riding a strong interest in zoology at the Habsburg court and with full access to Rudolf's menagerie, he became a leader in this genre, painting and drawing a great variety of animals: pelicans, ostriches, camels, and the now extinct dodo, which he immortalized in several works. For instance, Ibanez testified that his father, an expatriate merchant, had served as a provider to the Habsburg Armada near Seville, hundreds of miles from the family's home in the Atlantic Pyrenees. YOU CAN do a great deal with bayonets, but you cannot sit on them", said the shrewd Habsburg statesman Felix zu Schwartzenberg after the European revolutions of 1848--a sentiment that was relevant then and is gaining adherents in America since the Iraq War. |
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