Cocoa flooded into Europe from the Americas through Habsburg-ruled Spain, and artisan chocolates became a desirable luxury in Vienna.
Whatever his exact intentions, Mr Arroyo and his squib are not going to reignite the Habsburg-Valois wars.
Francesca Von Habsburg, the baroness's stepdaughter and another museum board member, has also expressed disapproval over the sale.
Defeat in 1849 led to a deal with the Habsburg monarchy that gave Hungary half the empire to run.
The Slovak response similarly accuses the Hungarians of hankering for the 19th century: they dominated the region in the Habsburg era.
The palace was the home of the Habsburg dynasty which, from Vienna, ruled vast swathes of Europe between 1452 and 1918.
This wasn't a clot of esoteric names and dates I'd dozed through in high school history, like the Habsburg Succession or the War of Jenkins's Ear.
Krakow lies at the foot of the Tatras, a continuation of the great Carpathian mountain range that for centuries marked the border of the Habsburg empire.
The Habsburg capital is on the cusp of modernity, its cosmopolitan mix of nationalities, and the dangerous new notions propagated by Sigmund Freud are evocatively pictured.
Second, the galleries of portraits reveal the extraordinary tentacle of the Habsburg family and the overweening preoccupation with dynastic succession and the demands of strategic alliances.
Slovenia has jumped right back into the old Habsburg-Austrian backyard.
Reaching further back, the Central Europeans who belonged to the Habsburg empire have tapped into a tradition of education, administration and commerce, backed by a middle-class, that looked west.
It flourished in 17th-century Transylvania (today mostly Romanian, but the fringe of what was then an autonomous principality is within Hungary), and it was long a bastion of feeling against Austrian Habsburg rule.
Although it is not known exactly when the diamond entered the House of Habsburg, it has been officially recorded as the property of the Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Palatine of Hungary (1872-1962), and was subsequently named after him.
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