Lying on the River Mur, the capital of the federal province of Styria is dominated by the Schlossberg, where there...

Graz

1477–1648

The Bundschuh, the usual laced footwear of the medieval peasant farmer, came to be the symbol of peasant...

The *Bundschuh*

1514

The royal Hungarian crown commemorates the first Christian king of Hungary, St Stephen (Hungarian: Szent István...

The Crown of St Stephen

1526–1918

The Battle of Mohács on 29 August 1526 marked the beginning of the Habsburgs’ Turkish Wars, which lasted until well...

Located in north-western Styria, the pilgrimage church of Mariazell goes back to a monk’s cell established by the...

Mariazell

1526–1648

Pressburg (present-day Bratislava) lies on the River Danube in the extreme west of the historical kingdom of Hungary...

Pressburg

1527–1792

Prague (Czech: Praha), the capital of the kingdom of Bohemia, grew out of a number of originally separate...

Prague

1527–1918

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