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Habsburg

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Habs·burg  (hpsbûrg, häpsbrk)
See Hapsburg.
Habsburg [ˈhaːpsbʊrk]
n
(Biographies) the German name for Hapsburg
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Noun1.HabsburgHabsburg - a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806
Hapsburg
dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
royal family, royal house, royal line, royalty - royal persons collectively; "the wedding was attended by royalty"


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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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