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Countess Katalin Bánffy-Jelen, who has died in Tangier aged 101, came to prominence at the age of 78 when she brought a forgotten masterpiece of European literature to international attention.
VIENNA, April 6.--An immense sensation has been caused throughout Austria, and, for the matter of that, in every capital of Europe, by the shocking suicide of Count Victor Karolyi, a member of one ...
BERLIN (AP) — Initial details of the reported daylight kidnapping of an elderly woman with links to Austro-Hungarian nobility made the apparent abduction in a small Austrian city sound like ...
FOR CENTURIES Slovakia was part of the Hungarian Empire. In the 9th and 10th centuries when the kingdom was being established, power became more concentrated in the hands of the Hungarian nobility.
Some of the Hungarian nobility, also spread out over today's Slovakia, had secret plans concerning the Habsburg king. In the Franciscan Square of Bratislava stands a tall Marian column, erected in ...
He was the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, claimant to the Hungarian Throne (TIME, Jan. 24 et ante). As the Black Archduke passed through the Gate of Honor, two lines of guards with leopard skins ...
Alexander and Elizabeth de Halmy, last of Austro-Hungarian nobility, escaped the Nazi Holocaust and communism to find peace by Lost Lagoon.
BERLIN (AP) - Initial details of the reported daylight kidnapping of an elderly woman with links to Austro-Hungarian nobility made the apparent abduction in a small Austrian city sound like ...