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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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Friday, January 12, 1917

". . . on January 12, in Vienna, Count Czernin told the Austrian Council of Ministers that it was necessary to look for a compromise peace. This was made all the more urgent, as far as maintaining the unity of the Hapsburg Empire was concerned, by an Allied declaration that day, issued in Rome, promising to strive for the national liberation of all the subject people of the Hapsburg dominions, chief among them the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Croats, Serbs and Roumanians."

Quotation Context

Count Ottokar Czernin took office as Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs on December 23, 1916. On January 12, 1917, when he spoke to the Council of Ministers for Common Affairs of the Empire, he was evidently unaware that Germany had already decided on a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare to begin on February 1. That decision had just been made at the Pless Conference of January 9 and 10.

Source

The First World War, a Complete History by Martin Gilbert, pp. 306–307, copyright © 1994 by Martin Gilbert, publisher: Henry Holt and Company, publication date: 1994

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