The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, highlights the painter’s splendid late style in an age when the Spanish royals had ...

Today, Vienna has regained its timeless charm, with architectural influences over the centuries dotting the city. You can ...

The outlook was no better on the international stage. No sooner had Maria Theresa assumed the throne than Frederick the Great ...

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The Kurdish forces guarding ISIS fighters at a jail in northern Syria say they are opposed to handing the facility to the new rulers in Damascus as they brace for attacks by the ultra-hardline ...

The Kurdish forces guarding Islamic State fighters at a jail in northern Syria say they are opposed to handing the facility to the new Islamist rulers in Damascus as they brace for attacks by the ...

It also included the insignia of Barbara Radziwill and Elizabeth of Habsburg, who were the first ... "The discovered burial insignia of the rulers of Lithuania and Poland are priceless historical ...

Southeast Asian nations have told Myanmar’s military government its plan to hold an election amid an escalating civil war should not be its priority, urging it to start dialogue and end ...

Here are 15 questions to test your knowledge of the rulers of the Roman Empire. Good luck! And if you need a hint click the yellow button. Tom Metcalfe is a freelance journalist and regular Live ...

At the time, the land that would become Switzerland consisted of administrative territories, or cantons, which had fallen under the control of the Habsburg rulers of Austria. As the story goes, ...