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Franz Ferdinand

American

[fur-dn-and, fer-di-nahnt] / ˈfɜr dnˌænd, ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt /

noun

Francis Ferdinand.

Franz Ferdinand British

/ frants ˈfɛrdinant /

noun

English name Francis Ferdinand . 1863–1914, archduke of Austria; heir apparent of Franz Josef I. His assassination contributed to the outbreak of World War I

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Something like this happened when Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Politics is something Franz Ferdinand have visited before.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2024

Franz Ferdinand singer Alex Kapranos has found fatherhood a familiar experience – as it reminds him of his band's early days.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2024

The 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo was long ago and far away, its participants and empires now a hazy history.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Franz Ferdinand was to eventually inherit the Hapsburg crown from his eighty-three-year-old uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph, and he planned to give the Bosnian Serbs a greater voice in the Austro-Hungarian government.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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