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  1. In 1945, Hungarian and German forces in Hungary were defeated by advancing Soviet armies. [5] Approximately 300,000 Hungarian soldiers and more than 600,000 civilians died during World War II, including between 450,000 and 606,000 Jews [6] and 28,000 Roma. [7] Many cities were damaged, most notably the capital Budapest.

  2. Mar 18, 2024 · Franz Joseph’s wife ( Empress Elisabeth) was actually a noted supporter of Hungarian causes, which might also have helped influence the emperor’s thought processes. The result was the 1867 Austro-Hungarian Compromise, which saw our informal Habsburg Empire (now the formal Austrian Empire) officially morph into Austria-Hungary, also known as ...

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  4. THE SECOND SIEGE, 1683. In 1683 Vienna was besieged for the second time by the Ottomans, who by 1541 had conquered central Hungary, bringing the frontier dangerously close to the Austrian capital. The 1660s saw new Ottoman conquests in Hungary (1660 and 1663), Crete (1669), and Poland-Lithuania (1672 and 1678) under the able leadership of the K ...

  5. Mongol invasion of Europe 1236–1242. Date. 1220s–1240s. Location. Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Central Europe, the Caucasus, and the Balkans. Result. Mongol victory. Numerous European political entities destroyed, subjugated, or raided and forced to pay tribute. Devastation of the populations, cultures, and political structures in most ...

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    • Mongol victory, Numerous European political entities destroyed, subjugated, or raided and forced to pay tribute., Devastation of the populations, cultures, and political structures in most of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus and Central Europe. Eventual Mongol withdrawal from Central Europe (1242).
  6. Süleyman the Magnificent. Siege of Vienna, (Sep-Oct 1529). In 1529 the Ottoman Empire made a determined effort to capture Vienna, the capital of the Hapsburg Austrian Empire. The failure to take Vienna marked the end of Turkish expansion into Europe and was followed by the diversion of Ottoman effort toward Asia and the Mediterranean.

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  7. Help and support for the KZ victims arrived after the war in Vienna via Switzerland from the USA. This letter was sent from the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in November 1947, the time of the most critical food situation in Vienna, by a relative Dr. Hans Sobotka who announced the sending of a parcel to Ignaz Sobotka, my great-grandfather.

  8. In the territories of Austria, the first traces of human settlement date from the Lower Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age). In 1991 a frozen human body dating from the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) was discovered at the Hauslabjoch pass in the Ötztal Alps on the Italian-Austrian border. At 5,300 years old, the so-called Iceman, nicknamed ...