The Austrian Empire was started in 1804 by Emperor Franz I to counter Napoleon's rising power, and it became the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867 with the Dual Monarchy system. This policy gave ...

The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland. The Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. When the Ottoman Empire ...

Vienna developed from early Celtic and Roman settlements into a Medieval and Baroque city, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It played an essential role as a leading European music centre, ...