Quotes About Habsburg

When the Habsburg State crumbled to pieces in 1918 the Austrian Germans instinctively raised an outcry for union with their German fatherland. That was the voice of a unanimous yearning in the hearts of the whole people for a return to the unforgotten home of their fathers.

También le dio nuevos colores a la nueva nación: verde, el color tradicional de los Braganza, y amarillo, en homenaje a su esposa porque era el color principal de la casa de Habsburgo.

During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.

You may come as a proud prince today young Habsburg. But you shall travel many more roads in Castile in death than you ever will in life

As the Habsburg military used to say, the situation is catastrophic, but not serious.

By the seventeenth century the thaler had become a unit of currency all over central Europe. It had also been copied in Habsburg Spain, whose taleros or 'pieces of eight' circulated throughout the Americas. They were known in English as 'dollars'.

The Germans in this multicultural border region were mainly members of the upper class: teachers, lawyers, factory owners, and clergy. My father's family (architect and brickyard owner) was well-to-do until the political upheavals resulting from World War I occurred (collapse of the old Austrian Habsburg