It was, but it meant that Billy Wilder, Paul Celan and Rose Ausländer were all born as Austrian citizens. A plus cultural contribution to the world in the film directing and poetry department! (Billy Wilder's hometown, Paul Celan's and Rose Ausländer's hometown (nicknamed "Little Vienna", no less).
More seriously, that was a great write up. Listening to the History of Byzantium podcast where the Turks are the up and coming power makes for a great contrast. (Also, the Byzantine Emperors while fighting with them also made deals with them, much to the confusion and disgust of the Western European Crusaders, who didn't get that if you live next door to someone you have diplomatic relations as well as war like ones and a constant swap over of population and employees.)
ETA: cahn, re: the changed Austrian attitude towards the Turks in general, see also the 1782 Entführung aus dem Serail, which takes advantage of, as Catarina tells Salieri in the movie, anything Turkish having become very fashionable. :)
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Re: 1764-1772 Foreign policy: Austria: Relations with the Turks
Date: 2024-01-14 04:02 pm (UTC)More seriously, that was a great write up. Listening to the History of Byzantium podcast where the Turks are the up and coming power makes for a great contrast. (Also, the Byzantine Emperors while fighting with them also made deals with them, much to the confusion and disgust of the Western European Crusaders, who didn't get that if you live next door to someone you have diplomatic relations as well as war like ones and a constant swap over of population and employees.)
ETA: