The Battle of Mohács on 29 August 1526 marked the beginning of the Habsburgs’ Turkish Wars, which lasted until well...

Located in north-western Styria, the pilgrimage church of Mariazell goes back to a monk’s cell established by the...

Mariazell

1526–1648

The Bundschuh, the usual laced footwear of the medieval peasant farmer, came to be the symbol of peasant...

The *Bundschuh*

1514

Lying on the River Mur, the capital of the federal province of Styria is dominated by the Schlossberg, where there...

Graz

1477–1648

Wiener Neustadt was founded by the Babenbergs after they had acquired Styria in 1192, and was intended to...

Wiener Neustadt

1452–1493

Vienna University was founded in 1365 by the Habsburg Rudolf IV as a rival to the university at Prague, which had...

Vienna University

1365

The Austrian archducal coronet is both the ‘crown’ of the Habsburg patrimonial lands (Upper and Lower Austria in the...

Austrian archducal coronet

1359–1918

The plague pandemic which became known as the Black Death killed about one-third of the population of Europe. The...

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