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 ...

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the ...

The word pogrom literally means "riot" in Russian. Commonly, the term describes the semi-official persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire that began in the early 1880s. With their situation in ...

Watch this video to find out how alliances and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to the outbreak of World War One. The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand ...

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 ...

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 ...

India may not be heading for the same fate as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but that doesn't mean the example is flawed.