The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . Funeral Procession of the Archduke Ferdinand Passing Through Sarajevo territory lying south of the Danube River was a margraviate, or bor-der country, under the rule of a margrave (keeper of the border)until the year 1156; when it was raised to a duchy, later becoming anarchduchy. By 1438 the rulers of this territory had annexed theprovinces north of t
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . Funeral Procession of the Archduke Ferdinand Passing Through Sarajevo territory lying south of the Danube River was a margraviate, or bor-der country, under the rule of a margrave (keeper of the border)until the year 1156; when it was raised to a duchy, later becoming anarchduchy. By 1438 the rulers of this territory had annexed theprovinces north of the Danube, and in that year began in Germanythe continuous reign of the House of Hapsburg, which took its namefrom a German princely family dwelling in the castle of Hapsburg(hawks castle) on the banks of the Aar River, the founder ofwhich house being Count Rudolf, who was elected Emperor of Ger-many in 1273 and later acquired Austria and established his line there. m * ? BB ». <o a:uo < m DI ZH (0D< O Q. DO cco E =- E 216 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 217 In Hungary the HajJsburg rule began in 1526, when Bohemia, Mo-ravia, and Silesia were added to Hungarian dominions, over whichMaximilian II was the first emperor to receive the imperial crown, in1564. In 1716 a successful war against Turkej^ made the monarchystill stronger. A loose kind of federation held the States togetheruntil Napoleon made himself Emperor of the French in 1804), whenFrancis I, son of Leopold II, of the Holy Roman Empire, pro-claimed himself hereditary Emperor of Austria, and united all theStates in the Empire of Austria-Hungar}^ He could not check the
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