AEIOU: A Podcast about Austria

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This week, we learn a new word -- defenestration -- and we learn why that word has been associated with the city of Prague. We also talk begin a discussion of the Thirty Years War and why it happened despite our previously discussed efforts to settle the religious question. 

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In this week's episode, perhaps one of the most momentous series of events in the history of humankind and certainly among the most momentous in European history: Luther launches the Reformation and faces off against the most powerful man in the world.

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The third episode of this podcast introduces a familiar name to our growing lexicon: Habsburg. And what is an interregnum anyway? And why do we care? And finally, another Latin motto for Austria.

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In our second episode, we look at some of the more prominent members of the Babenberg dynasty, learn a little about Austrian vexillology, and find out more about why the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, or really an empire.

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Our first episode gives some background on what Austria is and how it's changed over a millennium. Then we jump right in with the history, providing some detail about the area's first dynasty, the House of Babenberg.