House of Lords (Austria)
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The House of Lords was the upper house of the Imperial Council, the bicameral legislature of the Austrian Empire from 1861 and of the Cisleithanian half of Austria-Hungary upon the Compromise of 1867.
House of Lords session at the Palais Niederösterreich, 1868
Austrian Parliament building (c. 1900)
Anton von Schmerling, President of the House of Lords from 1871, painting by Friedrich von Amerling
Austrian Empire
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The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs. During its exist
Greatest extent of the Austrian Empire (1846–1859)
The Declaration of Victory After the Battle of Leipzig, by Johann Peter Krafft. Karl von Schwarzenberg and the monarchs of Austria, Prussia, and Russia after the Battle of Leipzig, 1813
Metternich alongside Wellington, Talleyrand, an other European diplomats at the Congress of Vienna, 1815
The crown jewels of Austria, with the 'hauskrone' of Rudolph II