The book is dedicated to the history of the formation, development and decline of the multinational state created by the Habsburg dynasty in the center of Europe at the beginning of the 16th century and existed until 1918. The Austrian Empire (from 1876 – Austria -Hungary) has several centuries were one of the leading European powers and played a huge role in the history of Europe.
The author’s focus is the Habsburgs as politicians and statesmen who contributed to the unification of many peoples of the Central European region within the framework of a single state. The history of the ruling house is inextricably and dramatically connected with the history of European politics, from the moment of creating the empire up to its collapse, the tragic symbol of which was the murder of the Serbian terrorist Gavrila Gavrila Principles of the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand, the heir to the imperial throne.
This murder became a pebble that faced an avalanche of a continental scale. It served as a pretext for the First World War, radically redleched the political …
Author
Shimov Yaroslav
Editor
Klimenko A. Yu.
Publisher
Algorithm, 2014
Series
The greatest empires of mankind
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