Sultans Trail Section 1: Vienna – Bratislava (110 km)

Tömegközlekedéssel

Tömegközlekedéssel elérhető

Mitchell, A. Wess (2019). The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire, by Wess Mitchell. (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, ISBN13: 9780691196442). “The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few advantages that explain successful empires. Yet somehow Austria endured, outlasting Ottoman sieges, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon. Wess Mitchell tells how this cash-strapped, polyglot empire survived for centuries in Europe's most dangerous neighbourhood without succumbing to the pressures of multisided warfare. He shows how the Habsburgs played the long game in geopolitics, corralling friend and foe alike into voluntarily managing the empire's lengthy frontiers and extending a benign hegemony across the turbulent lands of middle Europe. The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire offers lessons on navigating a messy geopolitical map, standing firm without the advantage of military predominance, and prevailing against multiple rivals”.

Finkel, Caroline (2007).  Osman's Dream. (New York: Basic Books, ISBN13: 9780465023974). “The Ottoman Empire was one of the world's largest and most influential empires. Its reach extended to three continents, and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often coloured by the memory of its bloody final throes on the battlefields of World War I. In this magisterial work-the first definitive account written for the general reader-renowned scholar and journalist Caroline Finkel lucidly recounts the epic story of the Ottoman Empire from its origins in the thirteenth century through its destruction in the twentieth”.

Maps, electronic

Online Atlas Niederösterreich

https://atlas.noe.gv.at/atlas/portal/noe-atlas/map/Planung%20und%20Kataster/Grundst%C3%BCcke

Freizeitkarten, downloadable OSM maps for Garmin, PC, and Android:

https://www.freizeitkarte-osm.de/garmin/en/index.html

Maps, printed

Weinwandern Niederösterreich – Wien. Bergverlag Rother (2020), 208 pages, weight 366 g., language German, scale 1:75.000, 1:50.000.