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The Empress: When did the real Austrian Empire fall? Explained in detail
Austria, after the Holy Roman Empire ended in 1806, wanted to build a powerful central monarchy to consolidate its power. Under Emperor Franz Joseph I, it became one of the dominant powers in ...
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Who was Empress Maria Theresa of the Holy Roman Empire, the matriarch who was a mother to sixteen children and who ruled for 40 years?
The second and eldest surviving child of Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbutte, Maria Theresa was immediately acknowledged as the rightful heir of the Holy ...
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In the first century AD, Jews lived across the Roman Empire in relative harmony.
Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies ... It also held Jewish holy scriptures and documents. Outside was the temple square – this was a ...
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Painting of Jesus and his disciples
One of the farthest corners of the Roman Empire, Judaea was a land of ancient ... He believed that trade like this corrupted the holy site. According to the Gospel of St John, he wrecked the ...
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Prague Travel Guide
heady days when the city served as the capital of the then Holy Roman Empire. The influx of tourism since the fall of communism in 1989 lent a much needed jolt of electricity, helping to create ...