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unusual facts about Habsburg Empire



Battle of Koroncó

The Battle of Koroncó took place on the 13th June 1704 at Koroncó in Moson County, Hungary between the Kurucs (Hungarians) and the army of Habsburg Empire (Germans, Danes, Serbs, Croats).

Ferenc Kölcsey

Ferenc Kölcsey (August 8, 1790, Sződemeter – August 24, 1838) was a Hungarian poet, literary critic, orator, and politician, noted for his support of the liberal current inside the Habsburg Empire.

First Geneva Convention

The movement for an international set of laws governing the treatment and care for the wounded and prisoners of war began when relief activist Henri Dunant witnessed the Battle of Solferino in 1859, fought between French-Piedmontese and Austrian armies in Northern Italy.

Giuseppe Cobolli Gigli

According to Pietro Valente, Cobolli Gigli was born from Nicolò Cobol (Capodistria 1861 - Trieste 1931), elementary school teacher and Italian irredentist, to which Trieste has dedicated a Karst trail (the Napoleon) for his creation of municipal recreation centers during the Habsburg times.

Mokrzyszów, Tarnobrzeg

For centuries, the village belonged to the Starosta of Sandomierz, and after the Partitions of Poland, it was transferred to the government of the Habsburg Empire, which leased it to several noblemen, such as Karol Kaschmitz, and Jan Feliks Tarnowski.

The Man with the Golden Touch

On the way to Komárom, they stop at an island, the "no man's island", which lies in the Danube between the Ottoman Empire and the Hungarian part of the Habsburg Empire, undiscovered and unclaimed by both.

Trento DOC

Chardonnay grapes were first brought to the region from France around 1900 by Giulio Ferrari when Trento was still part of the Habsburg Empire.

Vasile Erdeli

Basil Erdeli-Ardeleanu as Emanoil Gojdu during revolutions of 1848 - 1849 in Transylvania and Hungary, the Romanian-Hungarian brotherhood promoted, but soon after the capitulation of Șiria, Arad kossuthişti Hungarian revolutionaries, supported in publicly, Franz Joseph I, Emperor of the Habsburg Empire.


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Albert Ritter Conti v. Cedassamare

A better actor than most of his fellow Habsburg Empire expatriates, Conti was able to secure dignified character roles in several silent and sound films; his credits ranged from Josef von Sternberg's Morocco (1930) to the early Laurel and Hardy knockabout Slipping Wives (1927).

Alexander, Count of Hoyos

After the fall of the Habsburg empire, he retired from public service and died in Schwertberg on 20 October 1937.

Habsburg Monarchy

The most famous novel on the decline of the Habsburg Empire is Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday.

Johann Baptist Martinelli

In cooperation with his brother Anton Erhard Martinelli, he designed the plans of several baroque churches in the Habsburg empire, among which the church in Grossweikersdorf, the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Blaj and the church in Dunaalmás.