And there, on Nov. 11, 1918, Karl I signed the Act of Abdication that ended 640 years of Hapsburg rule.

Amid this stew are 1.9 million Slovenes, whose urbane and Westernized Slavic culture, ripened during the six centuries of relatively tranquil Hapsburg rule, seems to express itself best through building ornamentation.

He began mixing with Legitimists, who were plotting to return Austria to Hapsburg rule.

The spot was once marked with a plaque honoring the assassin, a Serbian nationalist who opposed Hapsburg rule.

As a consequence of the Treaty of Trianon, most of Moson county was lost to non-Hungarian lands and all signs of the Hapsburg rule were destroyed.

Hungary's territory shrunk to 40 percent of its size under Hapsburg rule, leaving much of the non-Magyar population outside its borders.

The building became a magnet for Czech nationalists from Bohemia, a medieval kingdom that fell under Hapsburg rule.

The Croatian parliament at Cetin unanimously elected Ferdinand Habsburg of Austria as King of Croatia on 1 January 1527, uniting both lands under Hapsburg rule.

Two blocks north is another lively square, Praça dos Restauradores, with its historic obelisk commemorating the overthrow of Spanish Hapsburg rule in 1640.