Habsburg

  1. Proper noun.  An Alpine castle in Aargau canton, northern Switzerland.
  2. Proper noun.  A Swabian noble family named after it, which became the ruling (hereditary) dynasty of Austria, at times other countries (mainly in Iberia and the former Burgundian territories) and supplied successive (elected) emperors of the Holy Roman Empire.

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