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Article: Vienna
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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VIENNA
VIENNA.
From the later thirteenth century, when Vienna and its surrounding territories were claimed by the Habsburg Dynasty, until the mid-fifteenth century, the Habsburgs slowly built up the old residence of their predecessors, the Babenbergs, and the one-time Roman legionnaires' camp into a sizable city complete with a church dedicated to Saint Stephen as well as a university and a castle residence built next to one of the old Roman roads leading to this important Danube River crossing. By 1500 the city may have had a population of approximately twenty to thirty thousand.
For some time during the fifteenth century, the Styrian branch of the Habsburg Dynasty held the upper ...