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 ...

Keller Professor of International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) to ...

This treaty established peace between the Allies and defeated Austria, and consecrated the dismantlement of the Austro-Hungarian empire into several smaller states, a source of many future tensions.

He grew up in the small provincial city of Iglau (present-day Jihlava), midway between Vienna and Prague, in the heart of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. MTT roams the city, finding ...

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 ...

A show at the International Center of Photography focuses on Usher Fellig, aka Weegee, featuring the pictures of crime scenes ...

In Halychyna, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Mykhailo Hrushevsky – one of the “fathers” of Ukrainian historical science – published works that described the history of Ukraine as a continuous ...