Cheap labour, diverse locations and a generous cash-rebate scheme have made the central European nation of 9.5 million an ...

Finished by the First World War and buried under the nation states that succeeded it, the Habsburg monarchy had survived for ...

The decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was a result of deep-seated internal pressures. This video examines the critical factors from 1916 to 1918, including inefficient military command, severe ...

My grandmother told me that in Prague one day, when she was a child, she saw a man throwing coins onto the street and yet nobody was picking them up. Then her mother explained that those coins weren’t ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Radetzky March is an important novel, since it singularly conveys the constrained spirit that some leaders of the Great Powers in Europe must have experienced ...

Kremlin propagandists have suggested on state TV that Russian authorities create a new empire in Europe. The idea was floated by Vladimir Solovyov, one of the most well-known figures in Kremlin-backed ...

For the past decade, wines from the "New World" (basically everywhere outside Europe) have burst onto the imbibing scene and established a firm foothold. Turns out, though, that the Old World wasn't ...

In 1521, in the imperial free city of Worms, the firebrand Augustinian friar Martin Luther stood before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, then the head of and heir to the House of Habsburg, and refused to ...

The Viennese painter’s portrait of a West African prince was owned by a Jewish family who fled the Nazi occupation. It was ...

"My strongest experience was the War and the destruction of my fatherland, the only one I ever had, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary." The fatalism of the protagonists, the living dead, and their ...