Habsburg

/ ˈhaːpsbʊrk /

noun

1. the German name for Hapsburg

Example Sentences

With ample resources, the Dutch fought for and won independence from Habsburg Spain, the world’s most powerful empire, while also helping to launch the Enlightenment and create modern art.

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Not until 1867 would France achieve a colonial dream in North America, with the brief, catastrophic “reign” of France’s puppet emperor, the Habsburg prince Maximilian, in Mexico.

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Art collecting was an important activity at the Habsburg court, signaling power, privilege and complexities of international relationships.

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D’Habsburg legally changed his name from Sylvein Scalleone and “is neither a relative by blood nor marriage to the Habsburg dynasty that ruled parts of Europe for centuries,” according to a spokesperson for the U.S.

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"Le Nozze di Figaro," an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is based on an eponymous play that was indeed censored first in France and then in the lands of the Habsburg emperor.

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