Archduchy of Austria | |||||||||
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1453–1804 1867–1918 | |||||||||
Motto: A.E.I.O.U. (Motto for the House of Habsburg) "All The World Is Subject To Austria"[1][2] | |||||||||
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Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire (1453–1806) Crown land of the Habsburg monarchy (from 1526) | ||||||||
Capital | Vienna | ||||||||
Common languages | Central Bavarian, German, Renaissance Latin | ||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
Demonym(s) | Austrian | ||||||||
Government | Absolute monarchy | ||||||||
Archduke | |||||||||
• 1453–1457 | Ladislaus the Posthumous (first formal archduke) | ||||||||
• 1792–1806 | Francis I | ||||||||
• 1916–1918 | Charles I | ||||||||
Historical era | Late Middle Ages to Early modern period | ||||||||
• Established | 1453 | ||||||||
1740–1748 | |||||||||
• Austrian Empire proclaimed | 11 August 1804 | ||||||||
• Holy Roman Empire dissolved | 6 August 1806 | ||||||||
30 August 1867 | |||||||||
18 November 1918 | |||||||||
• Disestablished | 1918 | ||||||||
Currency |
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ISO 3166 code | AT | ||||||||
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The Archduchy of Austria (Latin: Archiducatus Austriae; German: Erzherzogtum Österreich) was a principality in Europe and a member of the Holy Roman Empire and the main area of the Habsburg monarchy. It was dissolved as a imperial state and replaced with the Upper and Lower Austria crown lands of the Habsburg monarchy after the Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, until it came back after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867.