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Babenberg
Babenberg , ruling house of Austria (976-1246). It possibly descended from, or succeeded, a powerful Franconian family of the 9th cent. from whose castle the city of Bamberg probably took its name. Holy Roman Emperor Otto II created Count Leopold of Babenberg margrave of the Eastern March (i.e., Aus... Read more
Wiener Neustadt
Wiener Neustadt , city (1991 pop. 35,134), Lower Austria province, E Austria. It is an industrial and rail center. Manufactures include locomotives, heavy machinery, and textiles. Founded in 1192, Wiener Neustadt was the birthplace of Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519). The city was severely damaged i... Read more
Leopold III
Leopold III or Saint Leopold, c.1073-1136, margrave of Austria (1095-1136). By his marriage (1106) with Agnes, widow of Duke Frederick I of Swabia (see Hohenstaufen ), he became the stepfather of German King Conrad III and the father of Otto of Freising and of Duke Henry II of Austria (see Ba... Read more
Styria
Styria , Ger. Steiermark , province (1991 pop. 1,184,593), 6,324 sq mi (16,379 sq km), central and SE Austria. Graz is the capital. Bordering on Slovenia in the south, Styria is predominately mountainous, with many forests, pastures, and meadowlands. The province is drained by the Mur, Enns, and Ra... Read more
Bavaria
Bavaria , Ger. Bayern, state (1994 pop. 11,600,000), 27,239 sq mi (70,549 sq km), S Germany. Munich is the capital. The largest state of Germany, Bavaria is bordered by the Czech Republic on the east, by Austria on the southeast and south, by Baden-Württemberg on the west, by Hesse on the n... Read more
Vienna
Vienna , Ger. Wien, city and province (1991 pop. 1,539,848), 160 sq mi (414 sq km), capital and largest city of Austria and administrative seat of Lower Austria, NE Austria, on the Danube River. The former residence of the Holy Roman emperors and, after 1806, of the emperors of Austria, Vienna is ... Read more
Austria
Austria , Ger. Österreich [eastern march], officially Republic of Austria, federal republic (2005 est. pop. 8,185,000), 32,374 sq mi (83,849 sq km), central Europe. It is bounded by Slovenia and Italy (S), Switzerland and Liechtenstein (W), Germany and the Czech Republic (N), and Slovakia and... Read more

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Babenberg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Babenberg , ruling house of Austria (976-1246...Emperor Otto II created Count Leopold of Babenberg margrave of the Eastern March (i.e...married Frederick's sister. Under Babenberg rule Austria was extended through eastward...
Austrian Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...976 when the eastern province was granted to the house of Babenberg. For the next three centuries that family would rule the...a flourishing trade center. With the death of the line of Babenberg in 1246, the duchy was voted first to Ottokar II, king of...
Walther von der Vogelweide
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...near a bird reserve (as his name indicates), Vogelweide went as a youth to the Viennese court of Duke Frederick I of the Babenberg line. There, where his teacher was the famous singer Reinmar von Hagenau, he remained until Frederick died on a crusade...
Austria
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...talon represent freedom from Nazi German control. The red and white bars of Austria's national flag adorn its breast. These represent the blood-stained tunic worn by Duke Leopold V of Babenberg after the Battle of Ptolemais in 1191
Upper Austria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Upper Austria was included in the Roman province of Noricum. In 1156 it was made a duchy by Frederick I and given to the Babenberg dukes of Austria. The province was invaded by the Turks in the 16th cent. It was a site of battles during the Thirty Years...
Styria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and later was part of Roman Noricum and Pannonia. It was made a duchy in 1180 and in 1192 passed to the Austrian house of Babenberg. Ottocar II of Bohemia successfully contested it with Bela IV of Hungary, but in 1278, at the battle of Marchfeld, Ottocar...
Vienna
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...overran the region. The Magyars, who gained possession of Vienna early in the 10th cent., were driven out by Leopold I of Babenberg , the first margrave of the Ostmark (see Austria ). Construction on Vienna's noted Cathedral of St. Stephen began c...
Bela IV
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...withdrawal of the invaders, he repopulated the country by inviting foreign colonization. In a battle (1246) with the last Babenberg duke of Austria, the duke was killed but the Austrians were victorious. Bela's long struggle with Ottocar II , king of...
Leopold III
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...he became the stepfather of German King Conrad III and the father of Otto of Freising and of Duke Henry II of Austria (see Babenberg ). He helped arrange the Concordat of Worms (1122), which ended the conflict over investiture. In 1125 he refused an...
Bavaria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...in 1137 the Guelph Henry the Proud acquired Saxony in addition to Bavaria, Conrad III deposed him and gave Bavaria to the Babenberg rulers of Austria. Frederick II restored (1156) Bavaria to Henry the Lion but in 1180 deposed the rebellious Guelph and...

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Austria
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...defeated by OTTO the Great at the Battle of Lechfeld in 955. Otto invested Leopold of Babenberg with the title of Margrave of Austria, and the Babenberg dynasty lasted until 1246. In 1282 Rudolf I, Count of HABSBURG invested his two sons...

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STATE DEPARTMENT ISSUES BACKGROUND NOTE ON AUSTRIA
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/1/2007; 700+ words ; ...by Charlemagne, who encouraged the adoption of Christianity. In 976, Leopold von Babenberg became the first in his family to rule the territory; the Babenberg line of succession lasted until the death of Frederick II in 1246. There was a brief...
A Concise History of Austria
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Holy Roman Empire enfeoffed by Emperor Otto II to Leopold of Babenberg. The Babenbergs and their successors, the Habsburgs, gradually...the focal point, followed in the latter Middle Ages by the Babenberg and Habsburg duchies. With the Habsburg acquisition of the...
Viena el arte de vivir.(De Viaje)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 2/17/2002; 700+ words ; ...en el ao 881, y posteriormente "Wieins", en el 1030); la Viena de los Babenberg (hasta 1246), la de Bohemia (despus de la extincin de los Babenberg y hasta 1278) y la de los Habsburgo, cuyo poder dur ms de 600 aos; la Viena asediada...
Whose Austria? (an interpretation of the millennium exhibition: includes a listing of the key dates in Austria's millennium)
Magazine article from: History Today; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto Ill, issued a document - a deed of investment for his vassal in the central Danube, Henry of Babenberg, which contains the earliest extant use of the term 'Ostarrichi' - Old High German for 'Osterreich'. The term 'Austria...
Save the Stephansdom. (Vienna).
Magazine article from: Europe; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...fist was a simple Romanesque basilica built between 1137 and 1147. About eighty years later, Friedrich II, the last of the Babenberg kings, commissioned a more grand basilica to replace it, but in 1258 a fire destroyed much of it. The church was quickly...
The Hapsburgs: Embodying Empire.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 6/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...been inventing traditions ever since the fourteenth century when they incorporated into their own mythology the heroes of the Babenberg dynasty which had preceded them as dukes of Austria. Indeed Wheatcroft argues that mythology, cultural propaganda expressed...
Saintly celebration. (St. Leopold's festival in Klosterneuberg, Austria)
Magazine article from: Europe; 11/1/1996; ; 695 words ; ...married well, receiving vast estates as dowry from his wife Agnes, who was related to two imperial families. A nobleman, Babenberg Musgrave Leopold III could have been king of the region once a part of the Holy Roman Empire, but he refused the post, suggesting...
A Farewell Song for the Tuerks; Diplomat Waltzes Away After Bringing a Bit of the Danube to Potomac's Banks
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/5/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...That's the Hapsburg dynasty's imperial winter palace, some parts of which are said to date back to 1155, when the Babenberg princes moved to Vienna. In 1918 the monarchy ended and the Hofburg became the presidential offices. (Austria's new ambassador...
Beyond The Sound of Music: The Quest for Cultural Identity in Modern Austria1
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...word for Austria from which the name Osterreich is derived. It was first mentioned in A.D. 996 documenting Leopold of Babenberg's lands along the Danube in today's Lower Austria. Evoking the Ostarrichi-myth immediately after the war, the Austrian...
Dynastengeschichte und Verwandtschaftsbilder: Die Adelsfamilie in der volkssprachigen Literature des Mittelalters.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...with Wace's Roman de Rou, but not until the thirteenth century in Germany, with treatments of the Liudolfing, Welf and Babenberg families in monastic chronicles and territorial and dynastic histories. The third section treats historical noble families...