habsburg

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habsburg  /ˈhæps bərɡ/ ? Meaning of "habsburg"

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  • (n) a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806

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  • In his 1985 memoir, "In the Eye of the Storm," Kurt Waldheim described Austria in the aftermath of World War I as "the defeated, ruined, truncated remnant of the former Austro-Hungarian Habsburg Empire."
    on Jun 14, 2007 By: Kurt Waldheim Source: International Herald Tribune

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