Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire until 1867 and of the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary until 1918.

The Austrian Empire was founded in 1804 as a reaction to the creation of the First French Empire under Napoleon I. The first Emperor of Austria was Francis I, at this time holding also the title of a Holy Roman Emperor, which he abdicated when the Empire was abolished in Napoleon's reorganisation of Germany in 1806. In the process of keeping his imperial title, he raised Austria from an Archduchy to an Empire.

After failed attempts at constitutional reform, the Austrian Empire was transformed into the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867 under Franz Joseph I, granting equal status to the Hungarian territories.

Countries of the Austrian Empire

• Kingdom of Bohemia (Königreich Böhmen )
• Kingdom of Hungary (Königreich Ungarn)
• Kingdom of Dalmatia (Königreich Dalmatien)
• Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien)
• Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia - (Königreich Kroatien und Slawonien)
• Kingdom of Lombardy and Venetia (Lombardo-Venezianisches Königreich)
• Archduchy of Austria (Erzherzogtum Österreich)
• Duchy of Carinthia (Herzogtum Kärnten)
• Duchy of Carniola (Herzogtum Krain)
• Duchy of Salzburg (Herzogtum Salzburg)
• Duchy of Silesia (Herzogtum Schlesien)
• Duchy of Styria (Herzogtum Steiermark)
• Duchy of Bukovina (Herzogtum Bukowina)
• Vojvodina of Serbia and Tamis Banat (Woiwodschaft Serbien und Tamisch Banat)
• Grand Principality of Transilvania (Großfürstentum Siebenbürgen)
• Margraviate of Moravia (Markgrafschaft Mähren)
• Princely County of Tyrol (Gefürstete Grafschaft Tirol)
• County of Gorizia and Gradisca (Grafschaft Görz und Gradisca)
• Vorarlberg
• Istria (Istrien)

See also

• Habsburg
• Habsburg Monarchy
• Ausgleich