Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternich, was a conservative Austrian statesman and diplomat who was at the center of the European balance of power known as the Concert of Europe for three decades as the Austrian Empire's foreign minister from 1809 and Chancellor from 1821 until the liberal Revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation.
Portrait by Thomas Lawrence, 1815
Kynžvart Castle in Bohemia
Metternich, c.1808
Napoleon receiving von Vincent at Erfurt, a congress Metternich was not allowed to attend
Austrians are the citizens and nationals of Austria. The English term Austrians was applied to the population of Habsburg Austria from the 17th or 18th century. Subsequently, during the 19th century, it referred to the citizens of the Empire of Austria (1804–1867), and from 1867 until 1918 to the citizens of Cisleithania. In the closest sense, the term Austria originally referred to the historical March of Austria, corresponding roughly to the Vienna Basin in what is today Lower Austria.
The first document containing the word "Ostarrîchi"; the word is marked with a red circle.
Growth of the Habsburg Monarchy
Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg
Sign of the Austrian resistance movement at the Stephansdom in Vienna
