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Habsburg, castle, Switzerland

Habsburg (häps`brkh), castle, Aargau canton, N Switzerland, near the Aare River. Built c.1030, it served during the 12th and 13th cent. as the seat of the counts of Habsburg or Hapsburg Hapsburg-Lorraine. An enlightened despot, Joseph II instituted reforms that included abolition of serfdom, revision of the penal code, religious toleration, and reduction of the power of the church. Leadership in the Hapsburg empire was given to the Germans.
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, whose name derives from the castle [Ger. Habichtsburg=hawk's castle].

Habsburg, Austrian royal family

Habsburg, family: see Hapsburg.

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Riding a strong interest in zoology at the Habsburg court and with full access to Rudolf's menagerie, he became a leader in this genre, painting and drawing a great variety of animals: pelicans, ostriches, camels, and the now extinct dodo, which he immortalized in several works.
For instance, Ibanez testified that his father, an expatriate merchant, had served as a provider to the Habsburg Armada near Seville, hundreds of miles from the family's home in the Atlantic Pyrenees.
YOU CAN do a great deal with bayonets, but you cannot sit on them", said the shrewd Habsburg statesman Felix zu Schwartzenberg after the European revolutions of 1848--a sentiment that was relevant then and is gaining adherents in America since the Iraq War.
 
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