Adalbert the Victorious (died May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). There are 219 days remaining before the end of the year. Events 1300-1899 1328 - William of Ockham secretly leaves Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII. 1538 - Geneva throws out John Calvin... May 26, Events January 11 - Theodora becomes Reigning Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire. Seljuk Turks capture Baghdad. Pope Victor II attains papacy. Births Deaths January 11 - Constantine IX Monomachos, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire May 26 - Margrave Adalbert of Austria Categories: 1055 ... 1055 in Melk (older spelling: , which accommodates the city archives and the tourist information, is the starting point of the tour. Beside the Forsthaus the is restricted on one side by remnants of the ancient city wall. At this junction one could find the on the other side of the city, one... Melk) war Graf is a German noble title equal in rank to a count or an earl. The comital titles awarded in Holy Roman Empire often related to the jurisdiction or domain of responsibility and represented special concessions of authority or rank. Only the more important titles remained in use until modern... Margrave of The Republic of Austria ( German: Official languages German Capital Vienna Largest city Vienna President Heinz Fischer Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel Area  - Total:  - % water: Ranked 112th 83,858 km² 1.3% Population  - Total:  - Density: Ranked 86th 8,150,836 ( 2000) 97/km² GDP (2003... Austria from Events Bulgaria becomes part of the Byzantine Empire. Peace of Bautzen between Germany. Boleslaus I of Poland conquers Red Ruthenia. Battle of Carham: The Scots conquer Lothian. Northumberland becomes part of Scotland. De facto end of the independence of Strathclyde. Canute the Great becomes king of Denmark (or 1019), succeeding... 1018 until his death. He extended the Eastern border of the then small Eastern As well as being a popular male name, Mark is the name of several things of interest: Biblical Mark the Evangelist - one of the gospel writers of the life of Jesus. Gospel of Mark - the gospel of Mark the Evangelist. The Mark refers to the forced use of the alleged... Mark of With an area of 70,553 km² and 12.4 million inhabitants, the Free State of Bavaria ( German ) and the Main. The major cities in Bavaria are Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Regensburg, Würzburg, Ingolstadt, Fürth and Erlangen. See also: List of places in Bavaria. Politics Bavaria... Bavaria as far as the rivers The Morava (as it is called in Czech and Slovak languages) or the or Záhorie Lowlands in Slovakia (plain between Moravia and Bratislava). After approximately 358 kilometers, the Morava meets the Danube at Bratislava-Devin. The only major cities along the river are Olomouc in Moravia and the Slovak... Morava/March and The Leitha (German, Hungarian: Lajta) is a river, formed in eastern Austria by the confluence of two headstreams, flowing some 170 km east into an arm of the Danube in northwest Hungary, near Mosonmagyaróvár. Historically, it formed a boundary between Austria (as Cisleithania) and Hungary (as Transleithania). Categories... Leitha and supported King Henry III (1017-1056) was a member of the Salian (sometimes Franconian) dynasty of Holy Roman Emperors. Born in 1017, he became king of Germany upon the death of his father, the emperor Conrad II on June 4, 1039. He was crowned emperor by the Pope in 1046. Henry was... Henry III in his battles against The Republic of Hungary (. National motto: (none current) historical: Regnum Mariae Patrona Hungariae National anthem: Himnusz (Isten áldd meg a magyart) Capital Budapest 47° 26 N, 19° 15 E Largest city Budapest Official languages Hungarian Government President Prime minister Democratic republic Ferenc Mádl... Hungary and Bohemia ( In the Czech language, there is no distinction between the adjectives Bohemian and Czech (). After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, Bohemia became part of the new Czech Republic. Bohemia is not currently an administrative unit of the Czech Republic. Instead, it is divided into Prague, the Central Bohemian... Bohemia. He resided in the Lower Austria () Amstetten, Baden, Bruck / Leitha, Gänserndorf, Gmünd, Hollabrunn, Horn, Korneuburg, Krems a.d.Donau, Krems/Stadt, Lilienfeld, Melk, Mistelbach, Mödling, Neunkirchen, Scheibbs, St. Pölten, St. Pölten Stadt, Tulln, Waidhofen/Thaya, Waidhofen/Ybbs Stadt, Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt Stadt, Wien-Umgebung, Zwettl, and 573 Gemeinden... Lower Austrian Originally from Bamberg in Franconia, now northern Bavaria, the Babenbergs or Babenberger ruled Austria as counts of the march and dukes from 976 - 1248, before the rise of the house of Habsburg. Early history of the family The earliest known ancestor of the Babenbergs was one Poppo, who early in... Babenberg castle of Melk, where Stift Melk is a Benedictine abbey in the federal state of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley along the Danube. It was founded in 1089 and resides on a rock above the city of Melk. Todays impressive baroque ensemble was built in 1702-1736 by architect Jakob Prandtauer... Stift Melk was to develop later.