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  1. The desire to preserve Austrian prestige as a great power at all costs and to eliminate the source of South Slav irredentism (a disruptive force in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which had been annexed in 1908) helped to bring about the war that would seal the fate of the Austrian monarchy; it was the assassination of a Hapsburg, Archduke Francis ...

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  3. Mar 15, 1989 · By From News Services. March 15, 1989 at 12:00 a.m. EST. ZIZERS, SWITZERLAND -- Zita, 96, the last empress of the vast Hapsburg empire of Austria-Hungary whose role in a plan to end World War I...

  4. Apr 2, 1989 · She died in Switzerland on March 14 at the age of 96. Some of the older spectators said they came to pay their respects to a woman they still remembered as their monarch.

  5. Books. The Last Hapsburg. "Charles I ... (17 August 1887 - 1 April 1922) was (among other titles) the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the last Emperor of Austria, the last King of Hungary, [1] the last King of Bohemia, Croatia and the last King of Galicia and Lodomeria and the last monarch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

  6. Feb 22, 2022 · March/April 2022 Published on February 22, 2022. Shawcross deftly reexamines the tragicomic rule of the Austrian archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, the Habsburg prince whom France briefly imposed on Mexico in the 1860s. Maximilian is often portrayed as a vainglorious buffoon, a quixotic old-school European aristocrat egged on by an ambitious wife.

  7. Jul 5, 2011 · VIENNA // Otto Habsburg, the eldest son of Austria's last emperor who became a champion of Europe's enlargement, has died in Germany at the age of 98.

  8. However, unlike in the 17th century, Hapsburg power in the Holy Roman Empire was now being challenged. Prussia had also proven itself to be a great power in the War of the Austrian Succession. Despite Austria retaining much of its territory, Prussia was successful in seizing Silesia, one of the wealthiest provinces in Germany at this time ...