The Ephesos Museum Vienna
Maria Theresia was the ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position in her own right. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia (today part of Poland and Ukraine), the Austrian Netherlands, and Parma. At the Heldenplatz, …