Theresienstadt was a military town. It was founded in 1780 by Joseph II. The construction of his fortress served the protection of the German-Prussian border region. The city was named [ … ]
Category: Roundtrip in Austria-Hungary
Prague/Praha
The Czech capital city does not require a lengthy description. It has been a popular destination today and a long time ago. Lots of foreigners made pilgrimages to see the [ … ]
Lemberg 2.
The capital city of Galicia was already a major commercial and military center in the early historical periods. This role was provided by the position of the town in the [ … ]
Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv
The foundation of the city can be linked to the formation of the eastern Slavic states on the Eastern European plain. It was part of a disputed territory between the [ … ]
Nyitra (Nitra)
The city of Nyitra is an ancient settlement, first officially mentioned in 880. But it was already known in Roman times. It may have been a commercial center at the [ … ]
Munkács (Mukacevo)
The Castle of Munkács is one of the known and important sites of Hungarian history. The castle is best known for the presence of Ms Ilona Zrínyi here, who was [ … ]
Kraków
For me Kraków is the nicest Polish city. It is second most populous, today it has a population of 760,000. Throughout the history of Poland, it was the capital city [ … ]
Kassa (Kosice)
The city of Kassa (today Kosice, Slovakia) was one of the most important administrative and military centers of the Kingdom of Hungary. It was the seat of the county of [ … ]
Pola
Pola (today Pula, Croatia) was the monarchy’s most important naval base on the Istrian peninsula. Previously, along with Dalmatia, Istria and Pola were Venetian estates until the Napoleonic Wars. In [ … ]
Görz
Görz (Gorizia) formally became one of Austria’s provinces in 1500 as part of Görz and Gradisca county, along with the southern part of today’s Slovenia. In the following centuries, the [ … ]