Saturday, September 26, 2009

Talk about long names

Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria had the following name, a great reminder of the way in which the Habsburg Empire was cobbled together: His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Franz Joseph I, By the Grace of God, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, King of Lombardy-Venetia, of Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria, and Illyria; King of Jerusalem, etc.., Archduke of Austria; Grand Duke of Tuscany and Krakow, Duke of Lorraine, of Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and of the Bukovina; Grand Prince of Transylvania; Margrave of Morovia; Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla, of Auschwitz, Zator and Teschen, Friuli, Ragusa (Dubrovnik) and Zara (Zadar); Princely Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca; Prince of Trent (Trento) and Brixen; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria; Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenburg, etc.; Lord of Trieste, of Cattaro (Kotor), and in the Windic march; Grand Voivode of the Voivodship of Serbia, etc.

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