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Lincoln sheep very large-bodied, white-faced, hornless breed having coarse wool, developed in England. It has made considerable contributions to the American sheep industry in the parentage of other breeds and is widely raised in several countries of the Southern Hemisphere.
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Restless corpses: `secondary burial' in the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...body articulation may be supported by a cross-cultural analysis of formation processes of dynastic mortuary records. The Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties Mortuary records from historic Europe provide useful comparative data sets, since special treatment...
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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...
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 "Reforma (México D.F., México)")
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Alexander Lernet-Holenia Aufstieg und Untergang des Hauses Osterreich/Kleinburgertum und Grossburgertum in Osterreich. (sound recording review)
Magazine article from: The Germanic Review; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Particularly unique is Lernet-Holenia's insistence that there were actually three major Austrian dynasties, hot two--Babenberg, Habsburg, and Lothringen (Lorraine)--the latter having been brought about by Empress Maria Theresa's marriage...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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