Leopold I.
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born June 9, 1640, Vienna
died May 5, 1705, Vienna>
Holy Roman emperor during whose lengthy reign (1658-1705) Austria emerged from a series of struggles with the Turks and the French to become a great European power, in which monarchical absolutism and administrative centralism gained ascendancy.
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