The Role of the Burgenland in the History of the Habsburg Monarchy
Fritz Zimmermann
Viewed from the perspective of thousands years, political history reveals a pattern continuous alternation between decay and re-formation. Thus, after fall Roman empire, first entity that emerged in West was Carolingian which, through coronation emperor 800, assumed form revived western empire. Although it soon became limited to part old empire inhabited by “German nation,” continued exist, at least outward form, under name Holy Empire until 1806. As early as 1804, though, Francis II had adopted title Austria for his position ruler “hereditary Austrian lands.”
Austrian History Yearbook