This might be a scene from the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918. In fact it is today, 100 years later. For once more the spectre of European fragmentation haunts Vienna.

Then her mother explained that those coins weren’t valid because the Austro-Hungarian Empire had ceased to exist, and, on that very day, October 28th, 1918, Prague had become the capital of a ...

Italian and Austro-Hungarian troops clashed at altitudes up to 12,000 feet (3,600 meters) with temperatures as low as -22°F (-30°C) in the Guerra Bianca, or White War, named for its wintry theater.

The cramped space was home to 20 World War One soldiers shielding from the bitterly cold terrain of an Italian mountain. The men, from the Austro-Hungarian army, were engaged in fierce fighting ...

Otto von Habsburg only relinquished his claim to the fallen Austro-Hungarian empire in 1961 The eldest son of the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian empire has died in Germany at the age of 98.