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Austria-Hungary

Peoples of Austria-Hungary in 1914 from 'Historical Atlas' by William R. Shepherd. The empire's population included Germans, Magyars, Romanians, Italians, and Slavs including Croats, Serbians, Ruthenians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, and Slovenes.

Peoples of Austria-Hungary in 1914 from Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd. The empire's population included Germans, Magyars, Romanians, Italians, and Slavs including Croats, Serbians, Ruthenians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, and Slovenes.

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Peoples of Austria-Hungary in 1914

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Germans, Magyars, Romanians, Italians, and Slavs including Croats, Serbians, Ruthenians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, and Slovenes.

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Austria-Hungary — the Austro-Hungarian Empire — united the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary under the Habsburgs. Besides the largely Germanic Austrians and the Magyars of Hungary, the Empire ruled over large ethnic and linguistic populations of Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Romanians, Slovenes, Croats, Serbians, Ruthenians, and Italians.

The two nations of the Empire, Austria and Hungary, shared a head of state and ministries of foreign affairs, finance, and defense. The countries had separate parliaments (in Vienna and Budapest) and prime ministers. Franz Josef was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and Commander in Chief of the armed forces. His rule, his army, his fleet, were K.u.K., kaiserlich und königlich, Imperial and Royal.

In 1914, Commander-in-Chief Conrad von Hötzendorf failed on the Serbian and Russian fronts. Austria-Hungary's three 1914 invasions of Serbia failed at great cost. In four battles against Russia, Austria-Hungary lost Galicia, much of Austria-Hungary's rolling stock, and 350,000 of his 900,000 men.

Italy's entry into the war in May 1915 opened a third battlefront and the first of twelve Battles of the Isonzo.

With German and Bulgarian support, Austria defeated Serbia in 1915.

On November 2, 1918, the Hungarian Republic recalled all Hungarian troops.

From the lands and peoples of Austria-Hungary the nations of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were created. Transylvania and Bukovina became part of a greater Romania, Galicia part of Poland, the south Tyrol and Trieste part of Italy.

Of nine million men mobilized, 1,050,000 were dead at the war's end.

Austria-Hungary is a country in Europe.

More about Austria-Hungary:

The Austro-Hungarian Empire
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Statistics for Austria-Hungary (1)

Type Statistic
Population 51,059,810

Some places in Austria-Hungary (10)

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Bosnia-Herzegovina Region
Budapest City
Bukovina Region
Galicia Region
Hungary Country
Przemysl City
Transylvania Region
Trentino and Alto Adige Region
Trieste City
Vienna City

Some people from Austria-Hungary (9)

Last Name First Name Full Name Role
Conrad von Hötzendorf Franz Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
Ferdinand of Austria-Este Franz Franz Ferdinand
Franz Joseph Emperor Franz Joseph
Krobatin Alexander Alexander von Krobatin
Kövess Hermann Hermann Kövess von Kövess-Háza
Pflanzer-Baltin Karl Karl Pflanzer-Baltin
Princip Gavrilo Gavrilo Princip
Trapp Georg Georg von Trapp
von Hapsburg Karl Karl, Emperor of Austria-Hungary

Some books about Austria-Hungary (11)

Title Author Last Name Author First Name
Austria-Hungary, including Dalmatia and Bosnia : handbook for travellers Baedeker Karl
In the World War Czernin Ottokar
The Road to Sarajevo Dedijer Vladimir
The Austro-Hungarian Forces in World War I (1) 1914-16 Jung Peter
Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City & its Culture Lukacs John
The Passing of the Hapsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918 2 Volumes May Arthur James
Brandenburg D.I Meindl Karl
The Radetzky March Roth Joseph
Three Novellas Roth Joseph
One Morning in Sarajevo: 28 June 1914 Smith David James
A Mad Catastrophe Wawro Geoffrey