Austria-Hungary

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The realm's official name was the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy ({{Langx|de|Österreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie}}, {{IPA|de|ˈøːstəʁaɪçɪʃ ˈʊŋɡaʁɪʃə monaʁˈçiː|IPA}}; {{Langx|hu|Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia}}, {{IPA|hu|ˈostraːk ˈmɒɟɒr ˈmonɒrɦijɒ|IPA}}),{{Cite book |last=Vajda |first=Stephan |title=Felix Austria. Eine Geschichte Österreichs: Manuscript of Franz Joseph I. |date=1980 |publisher=Ueberreuter |isbn=3-8000-3168-X |location=Vienna |language=de}} though in international relations Austria–Hungary was used ({{Langx|de|Österreich-Ungarn|links=no}}; {{Langx|hu|Ausztria-Magyarország|links=no}}). The Austrians also used the names {{Lang|de|k. u. k. Monarchie}} ({{Langx|en|k. u. k. monarchy}}){{Cite book |last=Philippoff |first=Eva |title=L'Autriche-Hongorie: Politique et culture à travers les texts (1867–1918) |date=2002 |publisher=Presses Univ. Septentrion |isbn=2-8593-9739-6 |location=Villeneuve d'Ascq |page=60 |language=fr |trans-title=Die Doppelmonarchie Österreich-Ungarn. Ein politisches Lesebuch (1867–1918) |ol=3631159M}}) (in detail {{Langx|de|Kaiserliche und königliche Monarchie Österreich-Ungarn|links=no}}; {{Langx|hu|Császári és Királyi Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia|links=no}}){{Cite book |last=Kotulla |first=Michael |title=Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte |date=17 August 2008 |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |isbn=978-3-5404-8707-4}} and Danubian Monarchy ({{Langx|de|Donaumonarchie|links=no}}; {{Langx|hu|Dunai Monarchia|links=no}}) or Dual Monarchy ({{Langx|de|Doppel-Monarchie|links=no}}; {{Langx|hu|Dual-Monarchia|links=no}}) and The Double Eagle ({{Langx|de|Der Doppel-Adler|links=no}}; {{Langx|hu|Kétsas|links=no}}), but none of these became widespread either in Hungary or elsewhere.

The realm's full name used in internal administration was The Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen.

• German: {{Lang|de|Die im Reichsrat vertretenen Königreiche und Länder und die Länder der Heiligen Ungarischen Stephanskrone}}
• Hungarian: {{Lang|hu|A Birodalmi Tanácsban képviselt királyságok és országok és a Magyar Szent Korona országai}}

From 1867 onwards, the abbreviations heading the names of official institutions in Austria–Hungary reflected their responsibility:

• {{Lang|de|k. u. k.}} ({{Lang|de|kaiserlich und königlich}} or Imperial and Royal) was the label for institutions common to both parts of the monarchy, e.g., the {{Lang|de|k.u.k. Kriegsmarine}} (Navy) and, during the war, the {{Lang|de|k.u.k. Armee}} (Army). The common army changed its label from {{Lang|de|k.k.}} to {{Lang|de|k.u.k.}} only in 1889 at the request of the Hungarian government.
• {{Lang|de|K. k.}} ({{Lang|de|kaiserlich-königlich}}) or Imperial-Royal was the term for institutions of Cisleithania (Austria); "royal" in this label referred to the Crown of Bohemia.
• {{Lang|de|K. u.}} ({{Lang|de|königlich-ungarisch}}) or {{Lang|de|M. k.}} ({{Lang|de|Magyar királyi}}) ("Royal Hungarian") referred to Transleithania, the lands of the Hungarian crown. In the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia, the autonomous institutions used k. ({{Lang|de|kraljevski}}) ("Royal"), since according to the Croatian–Hungarian Settlement, the only official language in Croatia and Slavonia was Croatian, and the institutions were "only" Croatian.

{{Anchor|Names}}Following a decision of Franz Joseph I in 1868, the realm bore the official name Austro-Hungarian Monarchy/Realm ({{Langx|de|Österreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie/Reich}}; {{Langx|hu|Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia/Birodalom}}) in its international relations. It was often contracted to the "Dual Monarchy" in English or simply referred to as Austria.{{Cite EB9|last=Kay|first=David|wstitle=Austria|volume=3|pages=116–141}}

{{Main|Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867}}

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Following Hungary's defeat against the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Mohács of 1526, the Habsburg Empire became more involved in the Kingdom of Hungary, and subsequently assumed the Hungarian throne. However, as the Ottomans expanded further into Hungary, the Habsburgs came to control only a small north-western portion of the former kingdom's territory. Eventually, following the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718, all former territories of the Hungarian kingdom were ceded from the Ottomans to the Habsburgs. In the revolutions of 1848, the Kingdom of Hungary called for greater self-government and later even independence from the Austrian Empire. The ensuing Hungarian Revolution of 1848 was crushed by the Austrian military with Russian military assistance, and the level of autonomy that the Hungarian state had enjoyed was replaced with absolutist rule from Vienna. This further increased Hungarian resentment of the Habsburg dominion.{{cite journal |author= |date=April 1861 |title=Austria and Her Reforms |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Westminster_Review/RgMU6lDeUisC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA2-PA278 |journal=The Westminster Review |location=New York |publisher=Leonard Scott & Co. |access-date=15 April 2025}}

In the 1860s, the Empire faced two severe defeats: its loss in the Second Italian War of Independence broke its dominion over a large part of Northern Italy (Lombardy, Veneto, Modena, Reggio, Tuscany, Parma and Piacenza) while defeat in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 led to the dissolution of the German Confederation (of which the Habsburg emperor was the hereditary president) and the exclusion of Austria from German affairs.{{Harvnb|Kann|1974}}; {{Harvnb|Sked|1989}}; {{Harvnb|Taylor|1964}} These twin defeats gave the Hungarians the opportunity to remove the shackles of absolutist rule.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

Realizing the need to compromise with Hungary in order to retain its great power status, the central government in Vienna began negotiations with the Hungarian political leaders, led by Ferenc Deák. The Hungarians maintained that the April Laws were still valid, but conceded that under the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, foreign affairs and defence were "common" to Austria and Hungary. On 20 March 1867, the newly re-established Hungarian parliament at Pest started to negotiate the new laws to be accepted on 30 March. However, Hungarian leaders received word that the Emperor's formal coronation as King of Hungary on 8 June had to have taken place in order for the laws to be enacted within the lands of the Holy Crown of Hungary.{{Harvnb|Kann|1974|pp=}} On 28 July, Franz Joseph, in his new capacity as King of Hungary, approved and promulgated the new laws, which officially gave birth to the Dual Monarchy.

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The Austro-Prussian War was ended by the Peace of Prague (1866) which settled the "German question" in favor of a Lesser German Solution.{{Cite web |last=Lesaffer |first=Randall |date=2021 |title=The War of 1866 and the Undoing of Vienna |url=https://opil.ouplaw.com/page/War_1866_Undoing_Vienna/the-war-of-1866-and-the-undoing-of-vienna |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731073436/https://opil.ouplaw.com/page/War_1866_Undoing_Vienna/the-war-of-1866-and-the-undoing-of-vienna |archive-date=31 July 2021 |access-date=31 July 2021 |website=Oxford Public International Law}} Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, who was the foreign minister from 1866 to 1871, hated the Prussian chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, who had repeatedly outmaneuvered him. Beust looked to France for avenging Austria's defeat and attempted to negotiate with Emperor Napoleon III of France and Italy for an anti-Prussian alliance, but no terms could be reached. The decisive victory of the Prusso-German armies in the Franco-Prussian war and the subsequent founding of the German Empire ended all hope of re-establishing Austrian influence in Germany, and Beust retired.{{Cite journal |last=Schmitt |first=Hans A. |date=1968 |title=Count Beust and Germany, 1866–1870: Reconquest, Realignment, or Resignation? |journal=Central European History |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=20–34 |doi=10.1017/S000893890001476X |issn=0008-9389 |jstor=4545476 |s2cid=144762108}}

After being forced out of Germany and Italy, the Dual Monarchy turned to the Balkans, which were in tumult as nationalistic movements were gaining strength and demanding independence.{{Cite web |last1=Roider |first1=Karl A. |author-link1=Karl A. Roider Jr. |last2=Wagnleitner |first2=Reinhold F. |last3=Fellner |first3=Fritz |last4=Zöllner |first4=Erich |last5=Ray |first5=Michael |date=28 November 2023 |title=History of Austria |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Austria |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408204700/https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Austria |archive-date=8 April 2024 |access-date=31 January 2024 |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica |language=en}} Both Russia and Austria–Hungary saw an opportunity to expand in this region. Russia took on the role of protector of Slavs and Orthodox Christians. Austria envisioned a multi-ethnic, religiously diverse empire under Vienna's control. Count Gyula Andrássy, a Hungarian who was Foreign Minister (1871–1879), made the centerpiece of his policy one of opposition to Russian expansion in the Balkans and blocking Serbian ambitions to dominate a new South Slav federation. He wanted Germany to ally with Austria, not Russia.{{Cite book |last=Langer |first=William L. |title=European Alliances and Alignments: 1871–1890 |date=1950 |edition=2nd |page=20}}

{{Main|Government of Austria-Hungary}}

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The Compromise of 1867 turned the Habsburg domains into a real union between the Austrian Empire ("Lands Represented in the Imperial Council", or Cisleithania) in the western and northern half and the Kingdom of Hungary ("Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen", or Transleithania) in the eastern half.

The government of Austria, which had ruled the monarchy until 1867, became the government of the Austrian part, and another government was formed for the Hungarian part. The common government (officially designated Ministerial Council for Common Affairs, or {{Lang|de|Ministerrat für gemeinsame Angelegenheiten}} in German) formed for the few matters of common national security - the Common Army, Navy, foreign policy and the imperial household, and the customs union. Although the two halves shared a common monarch and both foreign relations and defense were managed jointly, all other state functions were to be handled separately as there was no common citizenship.{{Efn|"The kingdom of Hungary desired equal status with the Austrian empire, which was weakened by its defeat in the German (Austro-Prussian) War of 1866. The Austrian emperor Francis Joseph gave Hungary full internal autonomy, together with a responsible ministry, and in return it agreed that the empire should still be a single great state for purposes of war and foreign affairs, thus maintaining its dynastic prestige abroad."Compromise of 1867, Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007}}{{Sfn|Roman|2003|page=401}}{{Cite book |title=The New Encyclopædia Britannica |date=2003 |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |isbn=978-0-8522-9961-6}}

Hungary and Austria maintained separate parliaments, each with its own prime minister: the Diet of Hungary (commonly known as the National Assembly) and the Imperial Council ({{Langx|de|Reichsrat}}) in Cisleithania. Each parliament had its own executive government, appointed by the monarch.{{Cite book |last=Péter |first=László |title=Hungary's Long Nineteenth Century: Constitutional and Democratic Traditions in a European Perspective |date=2011 |publisher=Koninklijke Brill |location=Leiden, the Netherlands |isbn= 978-9-0042-2421-6}}{{Cite book |last=Balázs |first=Éva H. |title=Hungary and the Habsburgs, 1765–1800: An Experiment in Enlightened Absolutism |date=1997 |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=978-9-6391-1603-0 |page=320}}

After 1878, Bosnia and Herzegovina came under Austro-Hungarian military and civilian rule{{Sfn|Minahan|1998|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=RSxt-JB-PDkC&pg=PA48 48]}} until it was fully annexed in 1908, provoking the Bosnian crisis with the Great Powers and Austria-Hungary's Balkan neighbors, Serbia and Montenegro.

Relations during the half-century after 1867 between the two parts of the dual monarchy featured repeated disputes over shared external tariff arrangements and over the financial contribution of each government to the common treasury. These matters were determined by the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, in which common expenditures were allocated 70% to Austria and 30% to Hungary. This division had to be renegotiated every ten years. There was political turmoil during the build-up to each renewal of the agreement. By 1907, the Hungarian share had risen to 36.4%.{{Cite book |last=Kronenbitter |first=Günther |title="Krieg im Frieden". Die Führung der k.u.k. Armee und die Großmachtpolitik Österreich-Ungarns 1906–1914 |date=2003 |publisher=Verlag Oldenbourg |isbn=3-4865-6700-4 |location=Munich |page=150 |lang=de}} The disputes culminated in the early 1900s in a prolonged constitutional crisis. It was triggered by disagreement over which language to use for command in Hungarian army units and deepened by the advent to power in Budapest in April 1906 of a Hungarian nationalist coalition. Provisional renewals of the common arrangements occurred in October 1907 and in November 1917 on the basis of the status quo. The negotiations in 1917 ended with the dissolution of the Dual Monarchy.{{Harvnb|Taylor|1964|pp=}}

{{Main|Ethnic and religious composition of Austria-Hungary}}

{{See also|Trialism in Austria-Hungary|United States of Greater Austria|Magyarization|Austro-Slavism|Panslavism}}

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In July 1849, the Hungarian Revolutionary Parliament proclaimed and enacted ethnic and minority rights (the next such laws were in Switzerland), but these were overturned after the Russian and Austrian armies crushed the Hungarian Revolution. After the Kingdom of Hungary reached the Compromise with the Habsburg Dynasty in 1867, one of the first acts of its restored Parliament was to pass a Law on Nationalities (Act Number XLIV of 1868). It was a liberal piece of legislation and offered extensive language and cultural rights. It did not recognize non-Hungarians to have rights to form states with any territorial autonomy.{{Sfn|Gábór|2010}}

Article 19 of the 1867 "Basic State Act" (Staatsgrundgesetz), valid only for the Cisleithanian (Austrian) part of Austria–Hungary,{{Sfn|Staatsgrundgesetz 1867}} said:

{{Blockquote|All races of the empire have equal rights, and every race has an inviolable right to the preservation and use of its own nationality and language. The equality of all customary languages ("{{Lang|de|landesübliche Sprachen}}") in school, office and public life, is recognized by the state. In those territories in which several races dwell, the public and educational institutions are to be so arranged that, without applying compulsion to learn a second country language ("{{Lang|de|Landessprache}}"), each of the races receives the necessary means of education in its own language.{{Sfn|Headlam|1911|p=39}}}} The implementation of this principle led to several disputes, as it was not clear which languages could be regarded as "customary". The Germans, the traditional bureaucratic, capitalist and cultural elite, demanded the recognition of their language as a customary language in every part of the empire. German nationalists, especially in the Sudetenland (part of Bohemia), looked to Berlin in the new German Empire.{{Cite journal |date=1980 |title=The Impact of the Dual Alliance on the Germans in Austria and Vice-Versa |journal=East Central Europe |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=288–309 |doi=10.1163/187633080X00202 |author-first1=Solomon |author-last1=Wank |author-first2=Barbara |author-last2=Jelavich}}

The Hungarian Minority Act of 1868 gave the minorities (Slovaks, Romanians, Serbs, et al.) individual (but not also communal) rights to use their language in offices, schools (although in practice often only in those founded by them and not by the state), courts and municipalities (if 20% of the deputies demanded it). Beginning with the 1879 Primary Education Act and the 1883 Secondary Education Act, the Hungarian state made more efforts to reduce the use of non-Magyar languages, in strong violation of the 1868 Nationalities Law.{{Cite book |first1=Robert |last1=Bideleux |first2=Ian |last2=Jeffries |title=A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change |publisher=Routledge |date=1998 |page=366}} After 1875, all Slovak language schools higher than elementary were closed, including the only three high schools (gymnasiums) in Revúca (Nagyrőce), Turčiansky Svätý Martin (Turócszentmárton) and Kláštor pod Znievom (Znióváralja).

Language was, as a proxy for ethnicity, one of the most contentious issues in Austro-Hungarian politics. All governments faced difficult and divisive hurdles in deciding on the languages of government and of instruction. The minorities sought the widest opportunities for education in their own languages, as well as in the "dominant" languages—Hungarian and German. By the "Ordinance of 5 April 1897", the Austrian Prime Minister Count Kasimir Felix Badeni gave Czech equal standing with German in the internal government of Bohemia; this led to a crisis because of nationalist German agitation throughout the empire. The Crown dismissed Badeni.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0crdKPvRGnsC |title=The Austrian Lyric |date=2004 |publisher=Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association |isbn=978-1-9043-5040-8 |editor-last=Beniston |editor-first=Judith |page=8 |access-date=14 November 2023 |editor-last2=Vilain |editor-first2=Robert |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114234321/https://books.google.com/books?id=0crdKPvRGnsC |archive-date=14 November 2023 |url-status=live}}

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Italian was regarded as an old "culture language" ({{Lang|de|Kultursprache}}) by German intellectuals and had always been granted equal rights as an official language of the Empire, but the Germans had difficulty in accepting the Slavic languages as equal to their own. On one occasion Count A. Auersperg (Anastasius Grün) entered the Diet of Carniola carrying what he claimed to be the whole corpus of Slovene literature under his arm; this was to demonstrate that the Slovene language could not be substituted for German as the language of higher education.

The following years saw official recognition of several languages, at least in Austria. Since 1867, laws awarded Croatian equal status with Italian in Dalmatia. Beginning in 1882, there was a Slovene majority in the Diet of Carniola and in the capital Laibach (Ljubljana); they replaced German with Slovene as their primary official language. Galicia designated Polish instead of German in 1869 as the customary language of government.{{Citation |last=Wierzbieniec |first=Wacław |title=Jewish Self-Government in Galicia, 1815–1914 |date=28 December 2021 |work=Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present |pages=283–351 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004501614/BP000013.xml |access-date=30 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604040536/https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004501614/BP000013.xml |archive-date=4 June 2024 |url-status=live |publisher=Brill |language=en |isbn=978-9-0045-0161-4}}

As of June 1907, all public and private schools in Hungary were obliged to ensure that after the fourth grade, the pupils could express themselves fluently in Hungarian. This led to the further closing of minority schools, devoted mostly to the Slovak and Rusyn languages. The two kingdoms sometimes divided their spheres of influence. According to Misha Glenny in his book, The Balkans, 1804–1999, the Austrians responded to Hungarian support of Czechs by supporting the Croatian national movement in Zagreb. In recognition that he reigned in a multi-ethnic country, Emperor Franz Joseph spoke (and used) German, Hungarian and Czech fluently, and Croatian, Serbian, Polish and Italian to some degree.

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The language disputes were most fiercely fought in Bohemia, where the Czech speakers formed a majority and sought equal status for their language to German. The Czechs had lived primarily in Bohemia since the 6th century and German immigrants had begun settling the Bohemian periphery in the 13th century. The constitution of 1627 made the German language a second official language and equal to Czech. German speakers lost their majority in the Bohemian Diet in 1880 and became a minority to Czech speakers in the cities of Prague and Pilsen (while retaining a slight numerical majority in the city of Brno (Brünn)). The old Charles University in Prague, hitherto dominated by German speakers, was divided into German and Czech-speaking faculties in 1882.{{Cite web |title=Charles University {{!}} Czech Republic, 14th Century, Faculty {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Charles-University |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629171720/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Charles-University |archive-date=29 June 2024 |access-date=30 June 2024 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}

At the same time, Hungarian dominance faced challenges from the local majorities of Romanians in Transylvania and in the eastern Banat, Slovaks in today's Slovakia, and Croats and Serbs in the crown lands of Croatia and of Dalmatia (today's Croatia), in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the provinces known as the Vojvodina (today's northern Serbia). The Romanians and the Serbs began to agitate for union with their fellow nationalists and language speakers in the newly founded states of Romania (1859–1878) and Serbia.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}

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Hungary's leaders were generally less willing than their Austrian counterparts to share power with their subject minorities, but they granted a large measure of autonomy to Croatia in 1868. To some extent, they modeled their relationship to that kingdom on their own compromise with Austria of the previous year. In spite of nominal autonomy, the Croatian government was an economic and administrative part of Hungary, which the Croatians resented. In the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina many advocated the idea of a trialist Austro-Hungaro-Croatian monarchy; among the supporters of the idea were Archduke Leopold Salvator, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and emperor and king Charles I who during his short reign supported the trialist idea only to be vetoed by the Hungarian government and Count István Tisza. The count finally signed the trialist proclamation after heavy pressure from the king on 23 October 1918.Budisavljević, Srđan, Stvaranje-Države-SHS, Creation of the state of SHS, Zagreb, 1958, p. 132–133.

In Istria, the Istro-Romanians, a small ethnic group composed by around 2,600 people in the 1880s,{{Cite journal |last=Nicoară |first=Vincențiu |date=1890 |title=Transilvania |url=http://dspace.bcucluj.ro/bitstream/123456789/8180/1/BCUCLUJ_FP_279996_1890_021_001.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Asociația Transilvană Pentru Literatura Română și Cultura Poporului Român |language=ro |pages=3–9 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://dspace.bcucluj.ro/bitstream/123456789/8180/1/BCUCLUJ_FP_279996_1890_021_001.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022}} suffered severe discrimination. The Croats of the region, who formed the majority, tried to assimilate them, while the Italian minority supported them in their requests for self-determination.{{Cite book |last=Weigand |first=Gustav |url=https://archive.org/details/romania21pariuoft |title=Romania. Recueil trimestriel consacré à l'étude des langes et des littératures romanes |date=1892 |publisher=Émile Bouillon |pages=240–256 |language=fr}}{{Cite book |last=Zbuchea |first=Gheorghe |title=O istorie a Românilor din Peninsula Balcanică: secolul XVIII-XX |date=1999 |publisher=Biblioteca Bucureștilor |isbn=978-9-7398-9188-2 |location=Bucharest |language=ro}} In 1888, the possibility of opening the first school for the Istro-Romanians teaching in the Romanian language was discussed in the Diet of Istria. The proposal was very popular among them. The Italian deputies showed their support, but the Croat ones opposed it and tried to show that the Istro-Romanians were in fact Slavs.{{Cite book |last=Popovici |first=Iosif |title=Dialectele române din Istria |date=1914 |publisher=none |volume=9 |location=Halle an der Saale |pages=21–32 |language=ro}} During Austro-Hungarian rule, the Istro-Romanians lived under poverty conditions,{{Cite book |last=Burada |first=Teodor |url=https://scribd.com/document/377567689/Teodor-T-Burada-O-calatorie-in-satele-romanesti-din-Istria-1896-reed-2003 |title=O călătorie prin satele românești din Istria |date=1896 |publisher=Tipografia Națională |location=Iași |pages=119–198 |access-date=7 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301195244/https://www.scribd.com/document/377567689/Teodor-T-Burada-O-calatorie-in-satele-romanesti-din-Istria-1896-reed-2003 |archive-date=1 March 2021 |url-status=live}} and those living in the island of Krk were fully assimilated by 1875.{{Cite journal |last=Spicijarić Paškvan |first=Nina |date=2014 |title=Vlachs from the Island Krk in the Primary Historical and Literature Sources |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326033781 |journal=Studii și Cercetări – Actele Simpozionului "Banat – Istorie și Multiculturalitate" |language=hr |pages=345–358}}

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Around 1900, Jews numbered about two million in the whole territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire;{{Cite book |last=Vital |first=David |title=A People Apart: A Political History of the Jews in Europe 1789–1939 |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-1982-1980-4 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vZmSV0c0f5MC&pg=PA299 299]}} their position was ambiguous. The populist and antisemitic politics of the Christian Social Party are sometimes viewed as a model for Adolf Hitler's Nazism.{{Cite book |last=Zacharia |first=Fareed |author-link=Fareed Zacharia |title=The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad |date=2003 |publisher=Norton |page=60}} Antisemitic parties and movements existed, but the governments of Vienna and Budapest did not initiate pogroms or implement official antisemitic policies.{{Citation needed|date=September 2013}} They feared that such ethnic violence could ignite other ethnic minorities and escalate out of control. The antisemitic parties remained on the periphery of the political sphere due to their low popularity among voters in the parliamentary elections.{{Citation needed|date=September 2013}}

In that period, the majority of Jews in Austria–Hungary lived in small towns (shtetls) in Galicia and rural areas in Hungary and Bohemia; however, they had large communities and even local majorities in the downtown districts of Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Kraków and Lwów. Of the pre-World War I military forces of the major European powers, the Austro-Hungarian army was almost alone in its regular promotion of Jews to positions of command.{{Sfn|Rothenberg|1976|p=118}} While the Jewish population of the lands of the Dual Monarchy was about 5%, Jews made up nearly 18% of the reserve officer corps.{{Sfn|Rothenberg|1976|p=128}} Thanks to the modernity of the constitution and to the benevolence of emperor Franz Joseph, the Austrian Jews came to regard the era of Austria–Hungary as a golden era of their history.{{Cite book |last1=Wyman |first1=David S. |author-link1=David S. Wyman |title=The World Reacts to the Holocaust |last2=Rosenzveig |first2=Charles H. |page=474}} By 1910 about 900,000 religious{{Clarify|date=August 2022| At the time, Judaism, particularly in this region, were undergoing a period of polarization where the population that identified as Jewish was split between notably discernible secular vs religious denominations}} Jews made up approximately 5% of the population of Hungary and about 23% of Budapest's citizenry. In the Austro-Hungarian Empire the generally fiercely patriotic Hungarian Jews were securing the tenuous Hungarian majority in the Kingdom of Hungary.{{Efn|From 45,5% to 50,4%.{{Cite book |first=Randolph L. |last=Braham |title=The Politics of Genocide |page=5}}}} Jews accounted for 54% of commercial business owners, 85% of financial institution directors and owners in banking, and 62% of all employees in commerce,{{Cite web |title=Hungary – Social Changes |url=http://countrystudies.us/hungary/25.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014133338/http://countrystudies.us/hungary/25.htm |archive-date=14 October 2012 |access-date=19 November 2013 |publisher=Countrystudies.us}} 20% of all general grammar school students, and 37% of all commercial scientific grammar school students, 31.9% of all engineering students, and 34.1% of all students in human faculties of the universities. Jews accounted for 48.5% of all physicians,{{Cite web |last=László |first=Sebők |date=2012 |title=A magyarországi zsidók a számok tükrében |trans-title=The Jews in Hungary in the light of the numbers |url=http://www.rubicon.hu/magyar/oldalak/a_magyarorszagi_zsidok_a_szamok_tukreben |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220144745/http://www.rubicon.hu/magyar/oldalak/a_magyarorszagi_zsidok_a_szamok_tukreben |archive-date=20 February 2015 |language=hu}} and 49.4% of all lawyers/jurists in Hungary.{{Cite web |date=2012 |editor-last=Karady |editor-first=Victor |editor2-last=Nagy |editor2-first=Peter Tabor |title=The numerus clausus in Hungary |url=http://mek.oszk.hu/11100/11109/11109.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://mek.oszk.hu/11100/11109/11109.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |page=42}} Note: The numbers of Jews were reconstructed from religious censuses. They did not include the people of Jewish origin who had converted to Christianity, or the number of atheists.{{Citation needed|date=June 2018}} Among many Hungarian parliament members of Jewish origin, the most famous Jewish members in Hungarian political life were Minister of Justice Vilmos Vázsonyi, Minister of War Samu Hazai, Minister of Finance János Teleszky, and ministers of trade {{ill|János Harkányi|hu|Harkányi János (politikus)}} and {{ill|József Szterényi|hu|Szterényi József}}.

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The first university in the Austrian half of the Empire (Charles University) was founded by Emperor Charles IV in Prague in 1347, the second oldest university was the Jagiellonian University established in Kraków by the King of Poland Casimir III the Great in 1364, while the third oldest (University of Vienna) was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365.{{Cite news |last=Mühlberger |first=Kurt |date=27 February 2015 |title=The beginnings of the Alma Mater Rudolphina |url=https://geschichte.univie.ac.at/en/topics/beginnings-alma-mater-rudolphina |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201184932/https://geschichte.univie.ac.at/en/topics/beginnings-alma-mater-rudolphina |archive-date=1 December 2022 |access-date=20 June 2019 |work=650 Plus}}

The higher educational institutions were predominantly German, but beginning in the 1870s, language shifts began to occur.{{Cite book |last=Strauss |first=Johann |chapter=7. Language and power in the late Ottoman Empire |editor-last=Murphey |editor-first=Rhoads |title=Imperial Lineages and Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean: Recording the Imprint of Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Rule |volume=18 |series=Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies |publisher=Routledge |date=7 July 2016 |isbn=978-1-3171-1844-2 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=gY-kDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT196 196]}} These establishments, which in the middle of the 19th century had had a predominantly German character, underwent in Galicia a conversion into Polish national institutions, in Bohemia and Moravia a separation into German and Czech ones. Thus Germans, Czechs and Poles were provided for. But now the smaller nations also made their voices heard: the Ruthenians, Slovenes and Italians. The Ruthenians demanded at first, in view of the predominantly Ruthenian character of rural East Galicia, a national partition of the Polish University of Lwów. Since the Poles were at first unyielding, Ruthenian demonstrations and strikes of students arose, and the Ruthenians were no longer content with the reversion of a few separate professorial chairs, and with parallel courses of lectures. By a pact concluded on 28 January 1914 the Poles promised a Ruthenian university; but owing to the war the question lapsed. The Italians could hardly claim a university of their own on grounds of population (in 1910 they numbered 783,000), but they claimed it all the more on grounds of their ancient culture. All parties were agreed that an Italian faculty of laws should be created; the difficulty lay in the choice of the place. The Italians demanded Trieste; but the Government was afraid to let this Adriatic port become the centre of an irredenta; moreover the Southern Slavs of the city wished it kept free from an Italian educational establishment. Bienerth in 1910 brought about a compromise; namely, that it should be founded at once, the situation to be provisionally in Vienna, and to be transferred within four years to Italian national territory. The German National Union (Nationalverband) agreed to extend temporary hospitality to the Italian university in Vienna, but the Southern Slav Hochschule Club demanded a guarantee that a later transfer to the coast provinces should not be contemplated, together with the simultaneous foundation of Slovene professorial chairs in Prague and Cracow, and preliminary steps towards the foundation of a Southern Slav university in Laibach. But in spite of the constant renewal of negotiations for a compromise it was impossible to arrive at any agreement, until the outbreak of war left all the projects for a Ruthenian university at Lemberg, a Slovene one in Laibach, and a second Czech one in Moravia, unrealized.

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In the year 1276, the university of Veszprém was destroyed by the troops of Péter Csák and it was never rebuilt. A university was established by Louis I of Hungary in Pécs in 1367. Sigismund established a university at Óbuda in 1395. Another, Universitas Istropolitana, was established 1465 in Pozsony (now Bratislava in Slovakia) by Mattias Corvinus. None of these medieval universities survived the Ottoman wars. Nagyszombat University was founded in 1635 and moved to Buda in 1777 and it is called Eötvös Loránd University today. The world's first institute of technology was founded in Selmecbánya, Kingdom of Hungary (since 1920 Banská Štiavnica, now Slovakia) in 1735. Its legal successor is the University of Miskolc in Hungary.{{Cite web |title=Miskolc and the University |url=http://oldwww.uni-miskolc.hu/uni/univ/booklet/MandU.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301055508/http://oldwww.uni-miskolc.hu/uni/univ/booklet/MandU.html |archive-date=1 March 2012 |access-date=28 January 2014}} The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is considered the oldest institute of technology in the world with university rank and structure. Its legal predecessor the Institutum Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum was founded in 1782 by Emperor Joseph II.{{Cite web |title=Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) — moveonnet |url=http://www.moveonnet.eu/directory/institution?id=HUBUDAPES02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119002524/http://www.moveonnet.eu/directory/institution?id=HUBUDAPES02 |archive-date=19 November 2012 |access-date=11 June 2012}}

The high schools included the universities, of which Hungary possessed five, all maintained by the state: at Budapest (founded in 1635), at Kolozsvár (founded in 1872), and at Zagreb (founded in 1874). Newer universities were established in Debrecen in 1912, and Pozsony university was reestablished after a half millennium in 1912. They had four faculties: theology, law, philosophy and medicine (the university at Zagreb was without a faculty of medicine). There were in addition ten high schools of law, called academies, which in 1900 were attended by 1,569 pupils. The Polytechnicum in Budapest, founded in 1844, which contained four faculties and was attended in 1900 by 1,772 pupils, was also considered a high school. There were in Hungary in 1900 forty-nine theological colleges, twenty-nine Catholic, five Greek Uniat, four Greek Orthodox, ten Protestant and one Jewish. Among special schools the principal mining schools were at Selmeczbánya, Nagyág and Felsőbánya; the principal agricultural colleges at Debreczen and Kolozsvár; and there was a school of forestry at Selmeczbánya, military colleges at Budapest, Kassa, Déva and Zagreb, and a naval school at Fiume. There were in addition a number of training institutes for teachers and a large number of schools of commerce, several art schools – for design, painting, sculpture, and music.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}

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|+ Literacy in Kingdom of Hungary,

incl. male and female{{Cite book |first1=Robert B. |last1=Kaplan |title=Language Planning and Policy in Europe |last2=Richard B. Baldauf |date=2005 |publisher=Multilingual Matters |isbn=978-1-8535-9811-1 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ei6TGveKcuEC&pg=PA56 56]}}

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|German

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|Hungarian

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|Croatian

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|Slovak

| 58.1%

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|Serbian

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|Romanian

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|Ruthenian

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{{Main|Economy of Austria-Hungary}}

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The heavily rural Austro-Hungarian economy slowly modernised after 1867. Railroads opened up once-remote areas, and cities grew. Many small firms promoted capitalist way of production. Technological change accelerated industrialization and urbanization. The first Austrian stock exchange (the Wiener Börse) was opened in 1771 in Vienna, the first stock exchange of the Kingdom of Hungary (the Budapest Stock Exchange) was opened in Budapest in 1864. The central bank (Bank of issue) was founded as Austrian National Bank in 1816. In 1878, it transformed into Austro-Hungarian National Bank with principal offices in both Vienna and Budapest.{{Cite web |last=Barcsay |first=Thomas |date=1991 |title=Banking in Hungarian Economic Development, 1867–1919 |url=http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHprint/v020/p0216-p0225.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141117205044/http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHprint/v020/p0216-p0225.pdf |archive-date=17 November 2014 |access-date=28 August 2016 |publisher=Ryeson Polytechnical Institute |page=216}} The central bank was governed by alternating Austrian or Hungarian governors and vice-governors.{{Sfn|Sugar|Hanak|1990|p=262}} Austria-Hungary also became the world's third-largest manufacturer and exporter of electric home appliances, electric industrial appliances, and power generation apparatus for power plants, after the United States and the German Empire,{{Cite book |last=Publishers' Association, Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland |title=The Publisher |volume=133 |date=1930 |page=355}} and it constructed Europe's second-largest railway network, after the German Empire. In 2000, a study estimated that GDP in constant national prices in 1913 was 19,140.8 million for Cisleithania and 10,971.6 million for Transleithania, a combined 30,112.4 million krone.{{Cite journal |last=Schulze |first=Max-Stephan |date=2000 |title=Patterns of growth and stagnation in the late nineteenth century Habsburg economy |journal=European Review of Economic History |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=311-340, 337-338 |doi=10.1017/S1361491600000095|url=http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/4370/1/__libfile_REPOSITORY_Content_Schulze%2C%20M_Patterns%20of%20growth%20and%20stagnation%20in%20the%20late%20nineteenth%20century%20Habsburg%20economy_Patterns%20of%20growth%20and%20stagnation%20in%20the%20late%20nineteenth%20century%20Habsburg%20economy%20%28LSE%20RO%29.pdf }}{{Efn|Bosnia-Herzegovina is excluded from these estimates.}} According to a 2005 study, GDP (PPP) in 1913 was 105,515 million 1990 Int$, the fifth-largest in Europe.{{Sfn|Schulze|2005|p=79}}

The gross national product per capita grew roughly 1.76% per year from 1870 to 1913. That level of growth compared very favorably to that of other European nations such as Britain (1%), France (1.06%), and Germany (1.51%). However, in a comparison with Germany and Britain, the Austro-Hungarian economy as a whole still lagged considerably, as sustained modernization had begun much later. Like the German Empire, that of Austria–Hungary frequently employed liberal economic policies and practices. In 1873, the old Hungarian capital Buda and Óbuda (Ancient Buda) were officially merged with the third city, Pest, thus creating the new metropolis of Budapest. The dynamic Pest grew into Hungary's administrative, political, economic, trade and cultural hub. Many of the state institutions and the modern administrative system of Hungary were established during this period. Economic growth centered on Vienna and Budapest, the Austrian lands (areas of modern Austria), the Alpine region and the Bohemian lands. In the later years of the 19th century, rapid economic growth spread to the central Hungarian plain and to the Carpathian lands. As a result, wide disparities of development existed within the empire. In general, the western areas became more developed than the eastern ones. The Kingdom of Hungary became the world's second-largest flour exporter after the United States.{{Sfn|Schulze|1996|page=80}} The large Hungarian food exports were not limited to neighbouring Germany and Italy: Hungary became the most important foreign food supplier of the large cities and industrial centres of the United Kingdom.Commercial Relations of the United States: Reports from the Consuls of the United States on the Commerce, Manufactures, Etc., of Their Consular Districts. Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1881 (page: 371) Galicia, which has been described as the poorest province of Austro-Hungary, experienced near-constant famines, resulting in 50,000 deaths a year.{{Cite book |first=Norman |last=Davies |title=God's Playground A History of Poland: Volume II: 1795 to the Present |date=24 February 2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-1992-5340-1 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=9Tbed6iMNLEC&pg=PA106 106–108]}} The Istro-Romanians of Istria were also poor, as pastoralism lost strength and agriculture was not productive.

However, by the end of the 19th century, economic differences gradually began to even out as economic growth in the eastern parts of the monarchy consistently surpassed that in the western. The strong agriculture and food industry of the Kingdom of Hungary with the centre of Budapest became predominant within the empire and made up a large proportion of the export to the rest of Europe. Meanwhile, western areas, concentrated mainly around Prague and Vienna, excelled in various manufacturing industries. This division of labour between the east and west, besides the existing economic and monetary union, led to an even more rapid economic growth throughout Austria–Hungary by the early 20th century. However, since the turn of the twentieth century, the Austrian half of the Monarchy could preserve its dominance within the empire in the sectors of the Industrial Revolution, but Hungary had a better position in the modern industries of the Second Industrial Revolution, in these modern sectors of the second industrial revolution (like machine building industry and electric industry) the Austrian competition could not become dominant.{{Cite book |last=Berend |first=Iván T. |author-link=Iván T. Berend |title=Case Studies on Modern European Economy: Entrepreneurship, Inventions, and Institutions |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-1359-1768-5 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=L_GEE9YDgtYC&pg=PA151 151]}}

The first telegraph connection (Vienna—Brno—Prague) had started operation in 1847.{{Sfn|Fichtner|2009|p=69}} In Hungarian territory the first telegraph stations were opened in Pressburg (Pozsony, today's Bratislava) in December 1847 and in Buda in 1848. The first telegraph connection between Vienna and Pest–Buda (later Budapest) was constructed in 1850,{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} and Vienna–Zagreb in 1850.{{Cite web |date=28 September 2012 |title=Telegraph Vienna-Zagreb |url=http://zg-magazin.com.hr/na-danasnji-dan-pusten-u-rad-prvi-hrvatski-brzojav |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311131712/http://zg-magazin.com.hr/na-danasnji-dan-pusten-u-rad-prvi-hrvatski-brzojav |archive-date=11 March 2016 |access-date=11 March 2016 |language=hr}}

Austria subsequently joined a telegraph union with German states.Kiesewetter, Herbert: Industrielle Revolution in Deutschland. Regionen als Wachstumsmotoren. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner 2004, {{ISBN|3-5150-8613-7}}, p. 246. In the Kingdom of Hungary, 2,406 telegraph post offices operated in 1884.{{Cite web |title=Telegráf – Lexikon |url=http://www.kislexikon.hu/telegraf.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429191923/http://www.kislexikon.hu/telegraf.html |archive-date=29 April 2014 |access-date=25 March 2013 |publisher=Kislexikon.hu}} By 1914 the number of telegraph offices reached 3,000 in post offices and further 2,400 were installed in the railway stations of the Kingdom of Hungary.{{Cite web |last1=Dániel Szabó |last2=Zoltán Fónagy |last3=István Szathmári |last4=Tünde Császtvay |title=Kettős kötődés : Az Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia (1867–1918) |url=http://mek.oszk.hu/01900/01905/html/index7.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731194539/http://mek.oszk.hu/01900/01905/html/index7.html |archive-date=31 July 2013}}

The first telephone exchange was opened in Zagreb (8 January 1881),Museum of Moslavina Kutina, Jasmina Uroda Kutlić: 'Telefon – čudo Novoga vijeka' (Telephone the miracle of Modern era){{Cite web |title=125 godina telefonije u Hrvatskoj (125 years of Telephony in Croatia) |url=http://base.ht.hr/odgovornost/muzej_arhiva2006-m125.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311191352/http://base.ht.hr/odgovornost/muzej_arhiva2006-m125.asp |archive-date=11 March 2016 |access-date=11 March 2016 |language=hr}}HT Muzej (Croatian Telecom Museum): '125 godina telefonije u Hrvatskoj' (125 years of Telephony in Croatia), Zagreb 2006., P.-2, the second was in Budapest (1 May 1881),Telephone History Institute: Telecom History – Issue 1 – Page 14 and the third was opened in Vienna (3 June 1881).Thomas Derdak, Adéle Hast: International Directory of Company Histories – Volume 5 – Page 315 Initially telephony was available in the homes of individual subscribers, companies and offices. Public telephone stations appeared in the 1890s, and they quickly became widespread in post offices and railway stations. Austria–Hungary had 568 million telephone calls in 1913; only two Western European countries had more phone calls: the German Empire and the United Kingdom. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was followed by France with 396 million telephone calls and Italy with 230 million phone calls.{{Sfn|Broadberry|O'Rourke|2010|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YHk0z-ujS3AC&pg=PA80 80]}} In 1916, there were 366 million telephone calls in Cisleithania, among them 8.4 million long distant calls.Brousek; Karl M.: Die Großindustrie Böhmens 1848–1918, München: Oldenbourg 1987, {{ISBN|978-3-4865-1871-9}}, p. 31. All telephone exchanges of the cities, towns and larger villages in Transleithania were linked until 1893.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} By 1914, more than 2000 settlements had telephone exchange in Kingdom of Hungary.

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The Telefon Hírmondó (Telephone Herald) news and entertainment service was introduced in Budapest in 1893. Two decades before the introduction of radio broadcasting, people could listen to political, economic and sports news, cabaret, music and opera in Budapest daily. It operated over a special type of telephone exchange system.

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By 1913, the combined length of the railway tracks of the Austrian Empire and Kingdom of Hungary reached {{Convert|43280|km|abbr=off}}. In Western Europe only Germany had more extended railway network ({{Cvt|63,378|km|disp=comma}}); the Austro-Hungarian Empire was followed by France ({{Cvt|40,770|km|disp=comma}}), the United Kingdom ({{Cvt|32,623|km|disp=comma}}), Italy ({{Cvt|18,873|km|disp=comma}}) and Spain ({{Cvt|15,088|km|disp=comma}}).{{Sfn|Broadberry|O'Rourke|2010|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YHk0z-ujS3AC&pg=PA80 80]}}

The first Hungarian steam locomotive railway line was opened on 15 July 1846 between Pest and Vác.Mikulas Teich, Roy Porter, The Industrial Revolution in National Context: Europe and the USA, p. 266. In 1890 most large Hungarian private railway companies were nationalized as a consequence of the poor management of private companies, except the strong Austrian-owned Kaschau-Oderberg Railway (KsOd) and the Austrian-Hungarian Southern Railway (SB/DV). They also joined the zone tariff system of the MÁV (Hungarian State Railways). By 1910, the total length of the rail networks of Hungarian Kingdom reached {{Convert|22869|km|abbr=off}}, the Hungarian network linked more than 1,490 settlements. Nearly half (52%) of the empire's railways were built in Hungary, thus the railroad density there became higher than that of Cisleithania. This has ranked Hungarian railways the 6th most dense in the world (ahead of Germany and France).{{Cite book |first=Iván T. |last=Berend |title=History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century |date=2003 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-5202-3299-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=a9csmhIT_BQC&pg=PA149 152] |language=hu}}

Electrified commuter railways: A set of four electric commuter rai lines were built in Budapest, the BHÉV: Ráckeve line (1887), Szentendre line (1888), Gödöllő line (1888), Csepel line (1912)István Tisza and László Kovács: A magyar állami, magán- és helyiérdekű vasúttársaságok fejlődése 1876–1900 között, Magyar Vasúttörténet 2. kötet. Budapest: Közlekedési Dokumentációs Kft., 58–59, 83–84. o. {{ISBN|9-6355-2313-0}} (1996)(English: The development of Hungarian private and state owned commuter railway companies between 1876 – 1900, Hungarian railway History Volume II.

Horse-drawn tramways appeared in the first half of the 19th century. Between the 1850s and 1880s many were built : Vienna (1865), Budapest (1866), Brno (1869), Trieste (1876). Steam trams appeared in the late 1860s. The electrification of tramways started in the late 1880s. The first electrified tramway in Austria–Hungary was built in Budapest in 1887.

Electric tramway lines in the Austrian Empire:

• Austria: Gmunden (1894); Linz, Vienna (1897); Graz (1898); Trieste (1900); Ljubljana (1901); Innsbruck (1905); Unterlach, Ybbs an der Donau (1907); Salzburg (1909); Klagenfurt, Sankt Pölten (1911); Piran (1912)
• Austrian Littoral: Pula (1904).
• Bohemia: Prague (1891); Teplice (1895); Liberec (1897); Ústí nad Labem, Plzeň, Olomouc (1899); Moravia, Brno, Jablonec nad Nisou (1900); Ostrava (1901); Mariánské Lázně (1902); Budějovice, České Budějovice, Jihlava (1909)
• Austrian Silesia: Opava (Troppau) (1905), Cieszyn (Cieszyn) (1911)
• Dalmatia: Dubrovnik (1910)
• Galicia: Lviv (1894), Bielsko-Biała (1895); Kraków (1901); Tarnów, Cieszyn (1911)Tramways in Austria: Book: Buckley, Richard (2000). Tramways and Light Railways of Switzerland and Austria (2nd edition), pp. 129–135 {{ISBN|0-9481-0627-1}}.Tramways in Czech Republic: Book: Jan Vinař : Historické krovy (page 351)Tramways in Poland (including Galicia), Book: Arkadiusz Kołoś, Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Instytut Geografii i Gospodarki Przestrzennej: Rozwój przestrzenny a współczesne funkcjonowanie miejskiego transportu szynowego w Polsce (page: 19)

Electric tramway lines in the Kingdom of Hungary:

• Hungary: Budapest (1887); Pressburg/Pozsony/Bratislava (1895); Szabadka/Subotica (1897), Szombathely (1897), Miskolc (1897); Temesvár/Timișoara (1899); Sopron (1900); Szatmárnémeti/Satu Mare (1900); Nyíregyháza (1905); Nagyszeben/Sibiu (1905); Nagyvárad/Oradea (1906); Szeged (1908); Debrecen (1911); Újvidék/Novi Sad (1911); Kassa/Košice (1913); Pécs (1913)
• Croatia: Fiume (1899); Pula (1904); Opatija – Lovran (1908); Zagreb (1910); Dubrovnik (1910).History of Public Transport in Hungary. Book: Zsuzsa Frisnyák: A magyarországi közlekedés krónikája, 1750–2000Tramways in Croatia: Book: Vlado Puljiz, Gojko Bežovan, Teo Matković, dr. Zoran Šućur, Siniša Zrinščak: Socijalna politika Hrvatske{{Cite web |title=Trams and Tramways in Romania – Timișoara, Arad, Bucharest |url=http://www.beyondtheforest.com/Romania/CFR7.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920062035/http://www.beyondtheforest.com/Romania/CFR7.html |archive-date=20 September 2013 |access-date=19 August 2013 |publisher=beyondtheforest.com}}Tramways in Slovakia: Book: Július Bartl: Slovak History: Chronology & Lexicon – p. 112

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The Budapest Metro Line 1 (originally the "Franz Joseph Underground Electric Railway Company") is the second oldest underground railway in the worldKogan Page: Europe Review 2003/2004, fifth edition, Wolden Publishing Ltd, 2003, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Hwi0s3I5jLEC&pg=PA174 page 174] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814020959/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hwi0s3I5jLEC&pg=PA174#v=onepage&q&f=false |date=14 August 2024}} (the first being the London Underground's Metropolitan Line and the third being Glasgow), and the first on the European mainland. It was built from 1894 to 1896 and opened on 2 May 1896.{{Cite web |date=22 November 1918 |title=The History of BKV, Part 1 |url=http://www.bkv.hu/en/the_history_of_bkv/the_history_of_bkv_part_1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312235642/http://bkv.hu/en/the_history_of_bkv/the_history_of_bkv_part_1 |archive-date=12 March 2013 |access-date=25 March 2013 |publisher=Bkv.hu}} In 2002, it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.{{Cite web |last=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |title=UNESCO World Heritage Centre – World Heritage Committee Inscribes 9 New Sites on the World Heritage List |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/156 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128082245/https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/156 |archive-date=28 November 2009 |access-date=10 April 2013 |publisher=whc.unesco.org}} The M1 line became an IEEE Milestone due to the radically new innovations in its era: "Among the railway's innovative elements were bidirectional tram cars; electric lighting in the subway stations and tram cars; and an overhead wire structure instead of a third-rail system for power".{{Cite web |date=31 March 2020 |title=Budapest's Electric Underground Railway Is Still Running After More Than 120 Years |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/budapests-electric-underground-railway-is-still-running-after-more-than-120-years |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319172004/https://spectrum.ieee.org/budapests-electric-underground-railway-is-still-running-after-more-than-120-years |archive-date=19 March 2022 |access-date=8 October 2021 |website=IEEE}}

The first Danubian steamer company, Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft (DDSG), was the world's largest inland shipping company until the collapse of Austria-Hungary.

In 1900 the engineer C. Wagenführer drew up plans to link the Danube and the Adriatic Sea by a canal from Vienna to Trieste. It was born from the desire of Austria–Hungary to have a direct link to the Adriatic Sea{{Cite book |last=Žmuc |first=Irena |title=Emona: Myth and Reality |date=2010 |publisher=Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana; City Museum of Ljubljana |isbn=978-9-6165-0920-6 |editor-last=Županek |editor-first=Bernarda |page=63 |chapter=Sustained Interest |access-date=19 June 2012 |chapter-url=http://www.mgml.si/media/katalog_9_5.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105154411/http://www.mgml.si/media/katalog_9_5.pdf |archive-date=5 November 2013 |url-status=dead}} but was never constructed.

In 1831 a plan had already been drafted to make the passage navigable, at the initiative of the Hungarian politician István Széchenyi. Finally Gábor Baross, Hungary's "Iron Minister", succeeded in financing this project. The riverbed rocks and the associated rapids made the gorge valley an infamous passage for shipping. In German, the passage is still known as the Kataraktenstrecke, even though the cataracts are gone. Near the actual "Iron Gates" strait the Prigrada rock was the most important obstacle until 1896: the river widened considerably here and the water level was consequently low. Upstream, the Greben rock near the "Kazan" gorge was notorious.

The length of the Tisza river in Hungary used to be {{Convert|1419|km|abbr=off}}. It flowed through the Great Hungarian Plain, which is one of the largest flat areas in central Europe. Since plains can cause a river to flow very slowly, the Tisza used to follow a path with many curves and turns, which led to many large floods in the area.

After several small-scale attempts, István Széchenyi organised the "regulation of the Tisza" (Hungarian: a Tisza szabályozása) which started on 27 August 1846, and substantially ended in 1880. The new length of the river in Hungary was {{Cvt|966|km}} ({{Cvt|1358|km}} total), with {{Cvt|589|km}} of "dead channels" and {{Cvt|136|km}} of new riverbed. The resultant length of the flood-protected river comprises {{Cvt|2940|km}} (out of {{Cvt|4220|km}} of all Hungarian protected rivers).

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The most important seaport was Trieste (today part of Italy), where the Austrian merchant marine was based. Two major shipping companies (Austrian Lloyd and Austro-Americana) and several shipyards were located there. From 1815 to 1866, Venice had been part of the Habsburg empire. The loss of Venice prompted the development of the Austrian merchant marine. By 1913, the commercial marine of Austria, comprised 16,764 vessels with a tonnage of 471,252, and crews number-ing 45,567. Of the total (1913) 394 of 422,368 tons were steamers, and 16,370 of 48,884 tons were sailing vessels{{Cite book |first=John |last=Scott-Keltie |author-link=John Scott-Keltie |url=https://archive.org/details/statesmansyearbo1919londuoft |title=The Statesman's Yearbook |date=1919 |publisher=Macmillan |page=[https://archive.org/details/statesmansyearbo1919londuoft/page/670 670]}} The Austrian Lloyd was one of the biggest ocean shipping companies of the time. Prior to the beginning of World War I, the company owned 65 middle-sized and large steamers. The Austro-Americana owned one third of this number, including the biggest Austrian passenger ship, the SS Kaiser Franz Joseph I. In comparison to the Austrian Lloyd, the Austro-American concentrated on destinations in North and South America.{{Sfn|Swiggum|2008}}{{Sfn|Wörthersee Schifffahrt}} The Austro-Hungarian Navy became much more significant than previously, as industrialization provided sufficient revenues to develop it. Pola (Pula, today part of Croatia) was especially significant for the navy.

The most important seaport for the Hungarian part of the monarchy was Fiume (Rijeka, today part of Croatia), where the Hungarian shipping companies, such as the Adria, operated. The commercial marine of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1913 comprised 545 vessels of 144,433 tons, and crews numbering 3,217. Of the total number of vessels 134,000 of 142,539 tons were steamers, and 411 of 1,894 tons were sailing vessels.{{Sfn|Scott-Keltie|1919|page=[https://archive.org/details/statesmansyearbo1919londuoft/page/683 683]}}

{{Main|Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces}}

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The Austro-Hungarian Army was under the command of Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (1817–1895), an old-fashioned bureaucrat who opposed modernization.Gunther Rothenburg, The Army of Francis Joseph (1976). The military system of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy was similar in both states, and rested since 1868 upon the principle of the universal and personal obligation of the citizen to bear arms. Its military force was composed of the Common Army; the special armies, namely the Austrian Landwehr, and the Hungarian Honvéd, which were separate national institutions, and the Landsturm or levy-en masse. As stated above, the common army stood under the administration of the joint minister of war, while the special armies were under the administration of the respective ministries of national defence. The yearly contingent of recruits for the army was fixed by the military bills voted on by the Austrian and Hungarian parliaments and was generally determined on the basis of the population, according to the last census returns. It amounted in 1905 to 103,100 men, of which Austria furnished 59,211 men, and Hungary 43,889. Besides 10,000 men were annually allotted to the Austrian Landwehr, and 12,500 to the Hungarian Honved. The term of service was two years (three years in the cavalry) with the colours, seven or eight in the reserve and two in the Landwehr; in the case of men not drafted to the active army the same total period of service was spent in various special reserves.{{EB1911|inline=1|last=Headlam|first=James Wycliffe|date=1911b|wstitle=Austria-Hungary|volume=3|page=3}}

The common minister of war was the head for the administration of all military affairs, except those of the Austrian Landwehr and of the Hungarian Honved, which were committed to the ministries for national defence of the two respective states. But the supreme command of the army was nominally vested in the monarch, who had the power to take all measures regarding the whole army. In practice, the emperor's nephew Archduke Albrecht was his chief military advisor and made the policy decisions.

The Austro-Hungarian Navy was mainly a coast defence force, and also included a flotilla of monitors for the Danube. It was administered by the naval department of the ministry of war.{{Sfn|Headlam|1911b|p=4}}

{{Main|Congress of Berlin|Bosnia and Herzegovina in Austria-Hungary|Bosnia Crisis}}

File:Archduke Eugen Bosniaks.jpg (31%), were drafted into special units of the Austro-Hungarian Army as early as 1879 and were commended for their bravery in service of the Austrian emperor, being awarded more medals than any other unit. The military march "Die Bosniaken kommen" was composed in their honor by Eduard Wagnes.{{Cite book |last=Wheatcroft |first=Andrew |title=The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe |date=28 April 2009 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-7867-4454-1 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=XkLDVyYZPBYC&pg=PA264 264]}}]]

Russian Pan-Slavic organizations sent aid to the Balkan rebels and so pressured the tsar's government to declare war on the Ottoman Empire in 1877 in the name of protecting Orthodox Christians. Unable to mediate between the Ottoman Empire and Russia over the control of Serbia, Austria–Hungary declared neutrality when the conflict between the two powers escalated into a war. With help from Romania and Greece, Russia defeated the Ottomans and with the Treaty of San Stefano tried to create a large pro-Russian Bulgaria.

This treaty sparked an international uproar that almost resulted in a general European war. Austria–Hungary and Britain feared that a large Bulgaria would become a Russian satellite that would enable the tsar to dominate the Balkans. British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli moved warships into position against Russia to halt the advance of Russian influence in the eastern Mediterranean so close to Britain's route through the Suez Canal.{{Sfn|Albrecht-Carrié|1973|loc=chapter 6}} The Treaty of San Stefano was seen in Austria as much too favourable for Russia and its Orthodox-Slavic goals.

The Congress of Berlin rolled back the Russian victory by partitioning the large Bulgarian state that Russia had carved out of Ottoman territory and denying any part of Bulgaria full independence from the Ottomans. The Congress of Berlin in 1878 let Austria occupy (but not annex) the province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a predominantly Slavic area. Austria occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina as a way of gaining power in the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania became fully independent. Nonetheless, the Balkans remained a site of political unrest with teeming ambition for independence and great power rivalries. At the Congress of Berlin in 1878 Gyula Andrássy (Minister of Foreign Affairs) managed to force Russia to retreat from further demands in the Balkans. As a result, Greater Bulgaria was broken up and Serbian independence was guaranteed. In that year, with Britain's support, Austria–Hungary stationed troops in Bosnia to prevent the Russians from expanding into nearby Serbia. In another measure to keep the Russians out of the Balkans, Austria–Hungary formed an alliance, the Mediterranean Entente, with Britain and Italy in 1887 and concluded mutual defence pacts with Germany in 1879 and Romania in 1883 against a possible Russian attack.{{Sfn|Austria-Hungary - MSN Encarta}} Following the Congress of Berlin the European powers attempted to guarantee stability through a complex series of alliances and treaties.

Anxious about Balkan instability and Russian aggression, and to counter French interests in Europe, Austria–Hungary forged a defensive alliance with Germany in October 1879 and in May 1882. In October 1882 Italy joined this partnership in the Triple Alliance largely because of Italy's imperial rivalries with France. Tensions between Russia and Austria–Hungary remained high, so Bismarck replaced the League of the Three Emperors with the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia to keep the Habsburgs from recklessly starting a war over Pan-Slavism.{{Sfn|Albrecht-Carrié|1973|pp=201–214}} The Sandžak-Raška / Novibazar region was under Austro-Hungarian occupation between 1878 and 1909, when it was returned to the Ottoman Empire, before being ultimately divided between kingdoms of Montenegro and Serbia.{{Cite web |title=The Austrian Occupation of Novibazar, 1878–1909 |url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/boshtml/bos128.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119180459/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/boshtml/bos128.htm |archive-date=19 January 2012 |access-date=24 March 2012 |publisher=Mount HolyOak}}

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On the heels of the Great Balkan Crisis, Austro-Hungarian forces occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in August 1878 and the monarchy eventually annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina in October 1908 as a common holding of Cisleithania and Transleithania under the control of the Imperial & Royal finance ministry rather than attaching it to either territorial government. The annexation in 1908 led some in Vienna to contemplate combining Bosnia and Herzegovina with Croatia to form a third Slavic component of the monarchy. The deaths of Franz Joseph's brother, Maximilian (1867), and his only son, Rudolf, made the Emperor's nephew, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne. The Archduke was rumoured to have been an advocate for this trialism as a means to limit the power of the Hungarian aristocracy.{{Sfn|Albrecht-Carrié|1973|loc=chapter 8}}

A proclamation issued on the occasion of its annexation to the Habsburg monarchy in October 1908 promised these lands constitutional institutions, which should secure to their inhabitants full civil rights and a share in the management of their own affairs by means of a local representative assembly. In performance of this promise a constitution was promulgated in 1910.{{Sfn|Albrecht-Carrié|1973|p=259–272}}

The principal players in the Bosnian Crisis of 1908–09 were the foreign ministers of Austria and Russia, Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal and Alexander Izvolsky. Both were motivated by political ambition; the first would emerge successful, and the latter would be broken by the crisis. Along the way, they would drag Europe to the brink of war in 1909. They would also divide Europe into the two armed camps that would go to war in July 1914.Gooch, 1936, pp 366–438.{{Sfn|Wank|2020}}

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Aehrenthal had started with the assumption that the Slavic minorities could never come together, and the Balkan League would never cause any damage to Austria. He turned down an Ottoman proposal for an alliance that would include Austria, Turkey, and Romania. However, his policies alienated the Bulgarians, who turned instead to Russia and Serbia. Although Austria had no intention to embark on additional expansion to the south, Aehrenthal encouraged speculation to that effect, expecting that it would paralyze the Balkan states. Instead, it incited them to feverish activity to create a defensive block to stop Austria. A series of grave miscalculations at the highest level thus significantly strengthened Austria's enemies.{{Sfn|Bridge|1972|pp=338–339}}

In 1914, Slavic militants in Bosnia rejected Austria's plan to fully absorb the area; they assassinated the Austrian heir and precipitated World War I.Langer, European Alliances and Alignments: 1871–1890 pp. 138, 155–6, 163

{{Main|History of Austria-Hungary during World War I}}

{{Main|July Crisis|Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand|Austro-Hungarian entry into World War I}}

{{Further|Causes of World War I}}

File:Gavrilo Princip captured in Sarajevo 1914.jpg is usually associated with the capture of Gavrilo Princip, although some{{Cite book |last1=Finestone |first1=Jeffrey |title=The last courts of Europe |last2=Massie |first2=Robert K. |date=1981 |publisher=Dent |isbn=978-0-4600-4519-3 |page=247}}{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=David James |title=One Morning in Sarajevo |date=2010 |publisher=Hachette UK |isbn=978-0-2978-5608-5 |quote=He was photographed on the way to the station and the photograph has been reproduced many times in books and articles, claiming to depict the arrest of Gavrilo Princip. But there is no photograph of Gavro's arrest – this photograph shows the arrest of Behr.}} believe it depicts Ferdinand Behr, a bystander detained by mistake.]]

The 28 June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, excessively intensified the existing traditional religion-based ethnic hostilities in Bosnia. However, in Sarajevo itself, Austrian authorities encouraged{{Cite book |last1=Djordjević |first1=Dimitrije |title=Scholar, patriot, mentor: historical essays in honor of Dimitrije Djordjević |last2=Richard B. Spence |date=1992 |publisher=East European Monographs |isbn=978-0-8803-3217-0 |page=313 |quote=Following the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Catholic Croats and Muslims in Sarajevo joined forces in an anti-Serb pogrom.}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J2tWAAAAMAAJ |title=Reports Service: Southeast Europe series |date=1964 |publisher=American Universities Field Staff |page=44 |quote=... the assassination was followed by officially encouraged anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo ... |access-date=7 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003074457/https://books.google.com/books?id=J2tWAAAAMAAJ |archive-date=3 October 2023 |url-status=live}} violence against the Serb residents, which resulted in anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo, in which Catholic Croats and Bosnian Muslims killed two and damaged numerous Serb-owned buildings. Writer Ivo Andrić referred to the violence as the "Sarajevo frenzy of hate."{{Cite book |last=Gioseffi |first=Daniela |url=https://archive.org/details/onprejudicegloba00gios_0 |title=On Prejudice: A Global Perspective |date=1993 |publisher=Anchor Books |isbn=978-0-3854-6938-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/onprejudicegloba00gios_0/page/246 246] |quote=... Andric describes the "Sarajevo frenzy of hate" that erupted among Muslims, Catholics, and Orthodox believers following the assassination on June 28, 1914, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo ... |access-date=2 September 2013 |url-access=registration}} Violent actions against ethnic Serbs were organized not only in Sarajevo but also in many other larger Austro-Hungarian cities in modern-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.{{Cite book |last=Mitrović |first=Andrej |title=Serbia's Great War, 1914–1918 |date=2007 |publisher=Purdue University Press |isbn=978-1-5575-3477-4 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=viqqqQ2KT7kC&pg=PA18 19]}} Austro-Hungarian authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina imprisoned and extradited approximately 5,500 prominent Serbs, 700 to 2,200 of whom died in prison. Four hundred sixty Serbs were sentenced to death and a predominantly Muslim{{Sfn|Tomasevich|2001|p=485|loc=The Bosnian wartime militia (Schutzkorps), which became known for its persecution of Serbs, was overwhelmingly Muslim.}}{{Cite book |last=Schindler |first=John R. |title=Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad |date=2007 |publisher=Zenith Imprint |isbn=978-1-6167-3964-5 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=c8Xb6x2XYvIC&pg=PA29 29]}} special militia known as the Schutzkorps was established and carried out the persecution of Serbs.{{Cite book |last=Kröll |first=Herbert |title=Austrian-Greek encounters over the centuries: history, diplomacy, politics, arts, economics |date=28 February 2008 |publisher=Studienverlag |isbn=978-3-7065-4526-6 |page=55 |quote=... arrested and interned some 5.500 prominent Serbs and sentenced to death some 460 persons, a new Schutzkorps, an auxiliary militia, widened the anti-Serb repression.}}

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Some members of the government, such as Minister of Foreign Affairs Count Leopold Berchtold and Army Commander Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, had wanted to confront the resurgent Serbian nation for some years in a preventive war, but the Emperor and Hungarian prime minister István Tisza were opposed. The foreign ministry of Austro-Hungarian Empire sent ambassador László Szőgyény to Potsdam, where he inquired about the standpoint of the German emperor, Wilhelm II, on 5 July and received a supportive response.

{{Blockquote|His Majesty authorized me to report to [Franz Joseph] that in this case, too, we could count on Germany's full support. As mentioned, he first had to consult with the Chancellor, but he did not have the slightest doubt that Herr von Bethmann Hollweg would fully agree with him, particularly with regard to action on our part against Serbia. In his [Wilhelm's] opinion, though, there was no need to wait patiently before taking action...Ladislaus Count von Szögyény-Marich (Berlin) to Leopold Count von Berchtold (5 July 1914), in Ludwig Bittner, et al., eds., Österreich-Ungarns Aussenpolitik von der Bosnischen Krise 1908 bis zum Kriegsausbruch 1914 [Austria–Hungary's Foreign Policy prior to the Bosnian Crisis of 1908 up to the Outbreak of War in 1914]. 8 vols, Vienna, 1930, vol. 8, no. 10,058.}}

The leaders of Austria–Hungary therefore decided to confront Serbia militarily before it could incite a revolt; using the assassination as an excuse, they presented a list of ten demands called the July Ultimatum, expecting Serbia would never accept. When Serbia accepted nine of the ten demands but only partially accepted the remaining one, Austria–Hungary declared war. Franz Joseph I finally followed the urgent counsel of his top advisers.

Over the course of July and August 1914, these events caused the start of World War I, as Russia mobilized in support of Serbia, setting off a series of counter-mobilizations. In support of his German ally, on Thursday, 6 August 1914, Emperor Franz Joseph signed the declaration of war on Russia. Italy initially remained neutral, despite its alliance with Austria–Hungary. In 1915, it switched to the side of the Entente powers, hoping to gain territory from its former ally.{{Cite book |last=Clark |first=Christopher |author-link=Chris Clark (historian) |title=The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 |date=2013 |pages=420–430}}

{{Further|Diplomatic history of World War I}}

File:Die verbündeten Monarchen mit ihren Feldherren im 1. Weltkrieg.jpg and Wilhelm II
with military commanders during World War I]]

The Austro-Hungarian Empire played a relatively passive diplomatic role in the war, as it was increasingly dominated and controlled by Germany.{{Cite book |last=Pribram |first=A. F. |title=Austrian Foreign Policy, 1908–18 |date=1923 |pages=68–128}}{{Cite book |last=Zeman |first=Z.A.B. (Zbyněk Anthony Bohuslav) |author-link=Zbyněk Zeman |title=A Diplomatic History of the First World War |date=1971 |publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson |pages=121–161 |ol=5388162M}} The only goal was to punish Serbia and try to stop the ethnic breakup of the Empire, and it completely failed. Starting in late 1916 the new Emperor Karl removed the pro-German officials and opened peace overtures to the Allies, whereby the entire war could be ended by compromise, or perhaps Austria would make a separate peace from Germany.{{Cite book |last=Stevenson |first=David |author-link=David Stevenson (historian) |title=The First World War and International Politics |date=1988 |pages=139–148 |ol=21170640M}} The main effort was vetoed by Italy, which had been promised large slices of Austria for joining the Allies in 1915. Austria was only willing to turn over the Trentino region but nothing more.{{Cite journal |last=Stevenson |first=David |author-link=David Stevenson (historian) |date=1991 |title=The failure of peace by negotiation in 1917 |url=http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/25731/1/The%20failure%20of%20peace%20by%20negotiation%20in%201917%28lsero%29.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Historical Journal |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=65–86 |doi=10.1017/S0018246X00013935 |s2cid=154930518 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526051101/http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/25731/1/The%20failure%20of%20peace%20by%20negotiation%20in%201917%28lsero%29.pdf |archive-date=26 May 2023 |access-date=9 May 2023}} Karl was seen as a defeatist, which weakened his standing at home and with both the Allies and Germany.{{Cite journal |last=Keleher |first=Edward P. |date=1992 |title=Emperor Karl and the Sixtus Affair: Politico-Nationalist Repercussions in the Reich German and Austro-German Camps, and the Disintegration of Habsburg Austria, 1916–1918 |journal=East European Quarterly |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=163ff}}

{{See also|Hungary in World War I}}

The heavily rural empire did have a small industrial base, but its major contributions were manpower and food.{{Cite book |last=Schulze |first=Max-Stephan |title=The Economics of World War I |date=2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-5218-5212-8 |editor-last=Broadberry |editor-first=Stephen |editor-link=Stephen Broadberry |page=95 |chapter=Austria-Hungary’s economy in World War I |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511497339.002 |access-date=6 June 2018 |editor-last2=Harrison |editor-first2=Mark |chapter-url=https://www.library6.com/books/523600.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929034223/https://www.library6.com/books/523600.pdf |archive-date=29 September 2018 |s2cid=16455027}}{{Cite book |title=The Habsburg Empire in World War I: Essays on the Intellectual, Military, Political and Economic Aspects of the Habsburg War Effort |date=1977 |editor-last=Kann |editor-first=Robert A. |editor-last2=yes |display-editors=1}} Nevertheless, Austria–Hungary was more urbanized (25%){{Cite book |last=Mowat |first=C.L. (Charles Loch) |author-link=C. L. Mowat |title=The New Cambridge Modern History. volume xii |date=1968 |publisher=(Cambridge University Press Archive)London: Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-5210-4551-3 |page=479}} than its actual opponents in the war, like the Russian Empire (13.4%),{{Cite book |last=Kappeler |first=Andreas |title=The Russian Empire: A Multi-ethnic History |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-3175-6810-0 |page=287}} Serbia (13.2%){{Cite book |last=Cirkovic |first=Sima M. |title=The Serbs Volume 10 of The Peoples of Europe |date=2008 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4051-4291-5 |page=235}} or Romania (18.8%).{{Cite book |last=Rotar |first=Marius |title=History of Modern Cremation in Romania |date=2013 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-4542-7 |page=24}} Furthermore, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had also more industrialized economy{{Sfn|Broadberry|O'Rourke|2010|page=[https://web.archive.org/web/20151015202359/https://books.google.com/books?id=YHk0z-ujS3AC&;pg=PA70 70]}} and higher GDP per capita{{Cite book |last=Stevenson |first=David |author-link=David Stevenson (historian) |title=With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 |date=2011 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-6740-6319-8 |page=399}} than the Kingdom of Italy, which was economically the far most developed actual opponent of the Empire.

On the home front, food grew scarcer and scarcer, as did heating fuel. Hungary, with its heavy agricultural base, was somewhat better fed. The army conquered productive agricultural areas in Romania and elsewhere, but refused to allow food shipments to civilians back home. Morale fell every year, and the diverse nationalities gave up on the empire and looked for ways to establish their own nation states.{{Cite book |last=Healy |first=Maureen |title=Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I |date=2007}}

Inflation soared, from an index of 129 in 1914 to 1589 in 1918, wiping out the cash savings of the middle class. In terms of war damage to the economy, the war consumed about 20 percent of the gross domestic product. The dead soldiers amounted to about four percent of the 1914 labor force, and the wounded ones to another six percent. Compared to the major countries in the war, the death and casualty rates were toward the high end regarding the present-day territory of Austria.

By summer 1918, "Green Cadres" of army deserters formed armed bands in the hills of Croatia-Slavonia, and civil authority disintegrated. By late October, violence and massive looting erupted, and there were efforts to form peasant republics. However, the Croatian political leadership was focused on creating a new state (Yugoslavia) and worked with the advancing Serbian army to impose control and end the uprisings.{{Cite journal |last=Banac |first=Ivo |date=1992 |title='Emperor Karl Has Become a Comitadji': The Croatian Disturbances of Autumn 1918 |journal=Slavonic and East European Review |volume=70 |issue=2 |pages=284–305}}

{{See also|Theater (warfare)}}

The Austro-Hungarian Empire conscripted 7.8 million soldiers during the war.{{Cite book |last=Tucker |first=Spencer |title=The European Powers in the First World War |date=1996 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-8153-0399-2 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=EHI3PCjDtsUC&pg=PA172 173]}} General von Hötzendorf was the Chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff. Franz Joseph I, who was much too old to command the army, appointed Archduke Friedrich von Österreich-Teschen as Supreme Army Commander (Armeeoberkommandant), but asked him to give Von Hötzendorf freedom to take any decisions. Von Hötzendorf remained in effective command of the military forces until Emperor Karl I took supreme command himself in late 1916 and dismissed Conrad von Hötzendorf in 1917. Meanwhile, economic conditions on the home front deteriorated rapidly. The empire depended on agriculture, and agriculture depended on the heavy labor of millions of men who were now in the army. Food production fell, the transportation system became overcrowded, and industrial production could not successfully handle the overwhelming need for munitions. Germany provided a great deal of help, but it was not enough. Furthermore, the political instability of the multiple ethnic groups within the empire now ripped apart any hope for national consensus in support of the war. Increasingly there was a demand for breaking up the empire and setting up autonomous national states based on historic, language-based cultures. The new emperor sought peace terms from the Allies, but his initiatives were vetoed by Italy.{{Sfn|Watson|2014}}{{Page needed|date=April 2023}}

{{Main|Serbian Campaign (World War I)|Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia}}

File:ShabatzBombardeadaOctubreDe1914--reportuponatroci00reis.jpg in Serbia, pictured in August 1914, was the first target of the Austro-Hungarian punitive expedition and the site of many atrocities committed against the local population.]]

At the start of the war, the army was divided into two: the smaller part attacked Serbia, while the larger part fought against the formidable Imperial Russian Army. The invasion of Serbia in 1914 was a disaster: by the end of the year, the Austro-Hungarian Army had taken no territory, but had lost 227,000 out of a total force of 450,000 men. However, in the autumn of 1915, the Serbian Army was defeated by the Central Powers, which led to the occupation of Serbia. Near the end of 1915, in a massive rescue operation involving more than 1,000 trips made by Italian, French and British steamers, 260,000 Serb soldiers were transported to Brindisi and Corfu, where they waited for the chance of the victory of Allied powers to reclaim their country. Corfu hosted the Serbian government in exile after the collapse of Serbia and served as a supply base for the Greek front. In April 1916 a large number of Serbian troops were transported in British and French naval vessels from Corfu to mainland Greece. The contingent numbering over 120,000 relieved a much smaller army at the Macedonian front and fought alongside British and French troops.{{Sfn|French forces occupy Corfu 2011}}

{{Main|Eastern Front (World War I)}}

File:Szturm Twierdzy Przemysl A. Ritter von Meissl.jpg in 1915]]

On the Eastern front, the war started out equally poorly. The government accepted the Polish proposal of establishing the Supreme National Committee as the Polish central authority within the empire, responsible for the formation of the Polish Legions, an auxiliary military formation within the Austro-Hungarian Army. The Austro-Hungarian Army was defeated at the Battle of Lemberg and the great fortress city of Przemyśl was besieged and fell in March 1915. The Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive started as a minor German offensive to relieve the pressure of the Russian numerical superiority on the Austro-Hungarians, but the cooperation of the Central Powers resulted in huge Russian losses and the total collapse of the Russian lines and their {{Cvt|100|km|0|sp=us|adj=on}} long retreat into Russia. The Russian Third Army disintegrated. In summer 1915, the Austro-Hungarian Army, under a unified command with the Germans, participated in the successful Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive. From June 1916, the Russians focused their attacks on the Austro-Hungarian Army in the Brusilov Offensive, recognizing the latter's numerical inferiority. By the end of September 1916, Austria–Hungary mobilized and concentrated new divisions, and the successful Russian advance was halted and slowly repelled; but the Austrian armies took heavy losses (about 1 million men) and never recovered. Nevertheless, the huge losses in men and materiel inflicted on the Russians during the offensive contributed greatly to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and caused an economic crash in the Russian Empire.

The Act of 5 November 1916 was then proclaimed to the Poles jointly by the Emperors Wilhelm II of Germany and Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary. This act promised the creation of the Kingdom of Poland out of the territory of Congress Poland, envisioned by its authors as a puppet state controlled by the Central Powers, with the nominal authority vested in the Regency Council. The origin of that document was the dire need to draft new recruits from German-occupied Poland for the war with Russia. Following the Armistice of 11 November 1918 ending the World War I, in spite of the previous initial total dependence of the kingdom on its sponsors, it ultimately served against their intentions as the cornerstone proto state of the nascent Second Polish Republic, the latter composed also of territories never intended by the Central Powers to be ceded to Poland.

The Battle of Zborov (1917) was the first significant action of the Czechoslovak Legions, which fought for the independence of Czechoslovakia against the Austro-Hungarian Army.

{{Main|Italian Front (World War I)}}

File:Trento 3 novembre 1918.jpg on 3 November 1918, after the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. Italy's victory marked the end of the war on the Italian Front and secured the dissolution of Austria–Hungary.{{Cite book |last=Burgwyn |first=H. James |title=Italian foreign policy in the interwar period, 1918–1940 |date=1997 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-2759-4877-1 |page=4}}]]

In May 1915, Italy attacked Austria–Hungary. Italy was the only military opponent of Austria–Hungary which had a similar degree of industrialization and economic level; moreover, her army was numerous (≈1,000,000 men were immediately fielded), but suffered from poor leadership, training and organization. Chief of Staff Luigi Cadorna marched his army towards the Isonzo River, hoping to seize Ljubljana, and to eventually threaten Vienna. However, the Royal Italian Army were halted on the river, where four battles took place over five months (23 June – 2 December 1915). The fight was extremely bloody and exhausting for both sides.{{Cite book |last=Schindler |first=John R. |title=Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War |date=2001}}

On 15 May 1916, Austrian Chief of Staff Conrad von Hötzendorf launched the Strafexpedition ("punitive expedition"): the Austrians broke through the front and occupied the Asiago plateau. The Italians managed to resist and in a counteroffensive seized Gorizia on 9 August. Nonetheless, they had to stop on the Carso, a few kilometres away from the border. At this point, several months of indecisive trench warfare ensued (analogous to the Western front). As the Russian Empire collapsed as a result of the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russians ended their involvement in the war, Germans and Austrians were able to transfer much of their manpower to the Western and Southern fronts from the erstwhile Eastern fighting.

On 24 October 1917, Austrians (now enjoying decisive German support) attacked at Caporetto using new infiltration tactics; although they advanced more than {{Cvt|100|km|2|sp=us}} in the direction of Venice and gained considerable supplies, they were halted and could not cross the Piave River. Italy, although suffering massive casualties, recovered from the blow, and a coalition government under Vittorio Emanuele Orlando was formed. Italy also enjoyed the support of the Entente: by 1918, large amounts of war materials and a few auxiliary American, British, and French divisions arrived in the Italian battle zone.{{Cite book |last=Cavallaro |first=Gaetano V. |title=The Beginning of Futility: Diplomatic, Political, Military and Naval Events on the Austro-Italian Front in the First World War 1914–1917 |date=2010 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=978-1-4010-8426-4 |volume=I |page=339}} Cadorna was replaced by General Armando Diaz; under his command, the Italians retook the initiative and won the decisive Second Battle of the Piave River (15–23 June 1918), in which some 60,000 Austrian and 43,000 Italian soldiers were killed. The final battle at Vittorio Veneto was lost by 31 October 1918 and the armistice was signed at Villa Giusti on 3 November.{{Cite book |last=Lowry |first=Bullitt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QlxfFYs61vMC |title=Armistice 1918 |date=2000 |publisher=Kent State University Press |isbn=978-0-8733-8651-7 |page=112 |access-date=19 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127152815/https://books.google.com/books?id=QlxfFYs61vMC |archive-date=27 January 2024 |url-status=live}}

{{Main|Romania during World War I}}

On 27 August 1916, Romania declared war against Austria–Hungary. The Romanian Army crossed the borders of eastern Hungary (Transylvania), but despite initial successes, by November 1916, the Austro-Hungarian, German, Bulgarian, and Ottoman armies had defeated the Romanian and Russian armies, and occupied the southern part of Romania (including Oltenia, Muntenia and Dobruja). Within three months of the war, the Central Powers approached Bucharest, the Romanian capital. On 6 December, Bucharest was captured, and part of the population moved to the unoccupied Romanian territory, in Moldavia, together with the Romanian government, royal court and public authorities, which relocated to Iași.{{Cite book |last=Torrey |first=Glenn E. |title=Romania and World War I |date=1998 |publisher=Histria Books}} In 1917, after several defensive victories (managing to stop the German-Austro-Hungarian advance), with Russia's withdrawal from the war following the October Revolution, Romania was forced to drop out of the war.{{Cite web |last=Shanafelt |first=Gary W. |date=April 1999 |title=Review of Torrey, Glenn E., Romania and World War I: A Collection of Studies. HABSBURG |url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=2990 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305222108/https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=2990 |archive-date=5 March 2023 |access-date=25 September 2019 |website=H-Net Reviews}}

File:Csíkpálfalva2.JPG, Romania]]

Although the Kingdom of Hungary comprised only 42% of the population of Austria–Hungary,See: 1910 census the thin majority{{Mdash}} more than 3.8 million soldiers{{Mdash}}of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces were conscripted from the Kingdom of Hungary during the First World War. Roughly 600,000 soldiers were killed in action, and 700,000 soldiers were wounded in the war.{{Cite book |last1=Buranbaeva |first1=Oksana |title=Culture and Customs of Hungary, Cultures and Customs of the World |last2=Mladineo |first2=Vanja |date=2011 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-3133-8370-0 |location=Bonn, Germany |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=WK_130Hqbr4C&pg=PA32 32]}}

Austria–Hungary held on for years, as the Hungarian half provided sufficient supplies for the military to continue to wage war. This was shown in a transition of power after which the Hungarian prime minister, Count István Tisza, and foreign minister, Count István Burián, had decisive influence over the internal and external affairs of the monarchy. By late 1916, food supply from Hungary became intermittent and the government sought an armistice with the Entente powers. However, this failed as Britain and France no longer had any regard for the integrity of the monarchy due to Austro-Hungarian support for Germany.

The setbacks that the Austrian army suffered in 1914 and 1915 can be attributed to a large extent by the incompetence of the Austrian high command. After attacking Serbia, its forces soon had to be withdrawn to protect its eastern frontier against Russia's invasion, while German units were engaged in fighting on the Western Front. This resulted in a greater than expected loss of men in the invasion of Serbia. Furthermore, it became evident that the Austrian high command had had no plans for possible continental war and that the army and navy were also ill-equipped to handle such a conflict.

In the last two years of the war the Austro-Hungarian armed forces lost all ability to act independently of Germany. As of 7 September 1916, the German emperor was given full control of all the armed forces of the Central Powers and Austria-Hungary effectively became a satellite of Germany.{{Cite book |last=Bassett |first=Richard |title=For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918 |date=2015 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-3001-7858-6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=y_PzCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA506 506]}} The Austrians viewed the German army favorably; on the other hand, by 1916 the general belief in Germany was that Germany, in its alliance with Austria–Hungary, was "shackled to a corpse". The operational capability of the Austro-Hungarian army was seriously affected by supply shortages, low morale and a high casualty rate, and by the army's composition of multiple ethnicities with different languages and customs.{{Cite journal |last=Uyar |first=Mesut |date=2015 |title=Review of Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War I |journal=Reviews in History |doi=10.14296/RiH/2014/1846 |doi-access=free}}

{{Main|Dissolution of Austria-Hungary}}

File:Karl v. Habsburg 5 Kingdoms-Oct.16 1918 (v2).png envisaged the Habsburg Empire as being made up of five Kingdoms, in a last desperate attempt to save the Monarchy.]]

File:Austria obituary.jpg" of the Austrian Empire, published in Kraków in late 1918. Translation:
"Overwhelmed with joy, until recently enslaved and now free Nations announce that their wicked step-mother AUSTRIA the WITCH, operated in William’s Clinic, died from senility after severe spasms, cursed by all those who had the infelicity of having to do with her. Her dreadful funeral took place during these days in the fields of Macedonia, on the Piave River and across the Rhine. Let her rest in eternal peace and may she never raise from the dead.

POLES, CZECHO-SLOVAKS, YUGOSLAVS

Funeral home Wilson & Co."]]

By 1918, the economic situation had deteriorated and governmental failure on the homefront ended popular support for the war.{{Sfn|Watson|2014|p=536}} The Austro-Hungarian monarchy collapsed with dramatic speed in the autumn of 1918. Leftist and pacifist political movements organized strikes in factories, and uprisings in the army had become commonplace.{{Sfn|Watson|2014|pp=536–540}} As the war went on, the ethnic unity declined; the Allies encouraged breakaway demands from minorities and the Empire faced disintegration. With apparent Allied victory approaching, nationalist movements seized ethnic resentment to erode social unity. The military breakdown of the Italian front marked the start of the rebellion for the numerous ethnicities who made up the multiethnic Empire, as they refused to keep on fighting for a cause that now appeared senseless. The Emperor had lost much of his power to rule, as his realm disintegrated.{{Sfn|Watson|2014|pp=536–540}}

On 14 October 1918, Foreign Minister Baron István Burián von Rajecz{{Sfn|Nagy|2006}} asked for an armistice based on President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and two days later Emperor Karl I issued a proclamation ("Imperial Manifesto of 16 October 1918") altering the empire into a federal union to give ethnic groups decentralization and representation.{{Cite thesis |last=Giant |first=Tibor |title=Through the Prism of the Habsburg Monarchy: Hungary in American Diplomacy and Public Opinion During the First World War |date=October 1996 |degree=pdf |publisher=University of Warwick |url=http://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap/74531 |pages=81–82 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814020848/https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/74531 |archive-date=14 August 2024 |url-status=live}} However, on 18 October, United States Secretary of State Robert Lansing replied that autonomy for the nationalities – the tenth of the Fourteen Points – was no longer enough. In fact, a Czechoslovak provisional government had joined the Allies on 14 October. The South Slavs in both halves of the monarchy had already declared in favor of uniting with Serbia in a large South Slav state in the 1917 Corfu Declaration signed by members of the Yugoslav Committee. The Croatians had begun disregarding orders from Budapest earlier in October. Lansing's response was, in effect, the death certificate of Austria–Hungary.{{Sfn|Nagy|2006}}{{Sfn|Watson|2014|pp=541–542}}

During the Italian battles, the Czechoslovaks and Southern Slavs declared their independence. With defeat in the war imminent after the Italian offensive in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto on 24 October, Czech politicians peacefully took over command in Prague on 28 October (later declared the birth of Czechoslovakia) and followed up in other major cities in the next few days. On 30 October, the Slovaks did the same. On 29 October, the Slavs in both portions of what remained of Austria–Hungary proclaimed the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and declared that their ultimate intention was to unite with Serbia and Montenegro in a large South Slav state. On the same day, the Czechs and Slovaks formally proclaimed the establishment of Czechoslovakia as an independent state.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}

On 17 October 1918, the Hungarian Parliament voted in favour of terminating the union with Austria. The most prominent opponent of continued union with Austria, Count Mihály Károlyi, seized power in the Aster Revolution on 31 October. Charles was all but forced to appoint Károlyi as his Hungarian prime minister. One of Károlyi's first acts was to formally repudiate the compromise agreement on 31 October, effectively terminating the personal union with Austria and thus officially dissolving the Austro-Hungarian state.{{Cite book |last=Cornelius |first=Deborah S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CInVseCvW-wC |title=Hungary in World War II: Caught in the Cauldron |date=2011 |publisher=Fordham University Press |isbn=978-0-8232-3343-4 |pages=9–10 |access-date=2 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110001205/https://books.google.com/books?id=CInVseCvW-wC |archive-date=10 November 2023 |url-status=live}}

By the end of October, there was nothing left of the Habsburg realm but its majority-German Danubian and Alpine provinces, and Karl's authority was being challenged even there by the German-Austrian state council.{{Sfn|Watson|2014|pp=542–556}} Karl's last Austrian prime minister, Heinrich Lammasch, concluded that Karl's position was untenable. Lammasch persuaded Karl that the best course was to relinquish, at least temporarily, his right to exercise sovereign authority. On 11 November, Karl issued a carefully worded proclamation in which he recognized the Austrian people's right to determine the form of the state and "relinquish(ed) every participation" in Austrian state affairs.[https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/emperor-karl-abdication-proclamation The 1918 Karl's proclamation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308101912/https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/emperor-karl-abdication-proclamation |date=8 March 2021}}. British Library. On the day after he announced his withdrawal from Austrian politics, the German-Austrian National Council proclaimed the Republic of German Austria. Károlyi followed suit on 16 November, proclaiming the Hungarian Democratic Republic.

{{Main|Treaty of Trianon|Treaty of Saint Germain}}

File:Trianon_consequences.png: Kingdom of Hungary lost 72% of its land and 3.3 million people of Hungarian ethnicity.]]

There were two legal successor states of the former Austro–Hungarian monarchy:{{Cite web |last=Stangl |first=Andrea |date=21 June 2014 |title=The successor states to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy |url=https://ww1.habsburger.net/en/developments/successor-states-austro-hungarian-monarchy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041932/https://ww1.habsburger.net/en/developments/successor-states-austro-hungarian-monarchy |archive-date=5 June 2023 |access-date=3 March 2021 |website=habsburger.net}}

• German Austria (which became the Republic of Austria)
• Hungarian Democratic Republic (which after a few other short-lived intermediaries became the Kingdom of Hungary)

The 1919 Treaties of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (between the victors of World War I and Austria) and Trianon (between the victors and Hungary) regulated the new borders of Austria and Hungary, reducing them to small-sized and landlocked states. The Entente not only assumed without question that the minority peoples wished to leave Austria and Hungary, but allowed them to claim vast territories containing sizeable German- and Hungarian-speaking populations. With this in mind, in regard to areas without a decisive national majority, the Entente powers ruled in many cases in favour of the newly emancipated independent nation-states. The Republic of Austria lost roughly 60% of the old Austrian Empire's territory. It also had to drop its plans for union with Germany, as it was not allowed to unite with Germany without League approval.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}} Hungary, however, was severely disrupted by the loss of 72% of its territory, 64% of its population and most of its natural resources. The Hungarian Democratic Republic was short-lived and was temporarily replaced by the communist Hungarian Soviet Republic. Romanian troops ousted Béla Kun and his communist government during the Hungarian–Romanian War of 1919.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}

In the summer of 1919, a Habsburg, Archduke Joseph August, became regent, but was forced to stand down after only two weeks when it became apparent the Allies would not recognise him.{{Cite web |date=24 August 1919 |title=Die amtliche Meldung über den Rücktritt |url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?apm=0&aid=nfp&datum=19190824&seite=2&zoom=2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226211328/http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?apm=0&aid=nfp&datum=19190824&seite=2&zoom=2 |archive-date=26 December 2015 |access-date=2 June 2017 |publisher=Neue Freie Presse, Morgenblatt |page=2 |language=de}} Finally, in March 1920, royal powers were entrusted to a regent, Miklós Horthy, who had been the last commanding admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy and had helped organize the counter-revolutionary forces. It was this government that signed the Treaty of Trianon under protest on 4 June 1920 at the Grand Trianon Palace in Versailles, France. The restored Kingdom of Hungary lost roughly 72% of the pre-war territory of the Kingdom of Hungary.{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Trianon, Treaty of |encyclopedia=The Columbia Encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-TrianonTr.html |access-date=28 August 2016 |date=2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228011000/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-TrianonTr.html |archive-date=28 December 2008}}{{Cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Spencer |title=Encyclopedia of World War I |last2=Priscilla Mary Roberts |date=2005 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-8510-9420-2 |edition=1st |page=1183 |quote=Virtually the entire population of what remained of Hungary regarded the Treaty of Trianon as manifestly unfair, and agitation for revision began immediately}}

Austria had passed the "Habsburg Law", which both dethroned the Habsburgs and banished all Habsburgs from Austrian territory. While Karl was banned from ever returning to Austria again, other Habsburgs could return if they gave up all claims to the defunct throne. In March and again in October 1921, ill-prepared attempts by Karl to regain the throne in Budapest collapsed. The initially wavering Horthy, after receiving threats of intervention from the Allied Powers and the Little Entente, refused his cooperation. Soon afterward, the Hungarian government nullified the Pragmatic Sanction, effectively dethroning the Habsburgs. Subsequently, the British took custody of Karl and removed him and his family to the Portuguese island of Madeira, where he died the following year.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}

File:AustriaHungaryWWI.gif and Saint Germain (1919–1920)]]

File:Dissolution of Austria-Hungary.png and Saint Germain{{Legend-line|gray solid 2px|Border of Austria–Hungary in 1914}}

{{Legend-line|black solid 2px|Borders in 1914}}

{{Legend-line|red solid 2px|Borders in 1920}}

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{{Legend|#FAF0EE|Kingdom of Hungary in 1914|outline=silver}}

{{Legend|#92A2CB|Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1914}}]]

File:Austria hungary 1911 and post war borders.jpg

The following states were formed, re-established or expanded at the dissolution of the former Austro–Hungarian monarchy:

• German Austria (which became the Republic of Austria)
• First Hungarian Republic which became the Hungarian Soviet Republic, subsequently briefly restored and replaced by the Hungarian Republic, ultimately transformed into the Kingdom of Hungary
• First Czechoslovak Republic, later "Czechoslovakia"
• Second Polish Republic, contested by the short-lived proto-states of Tarnobrzeg Republic and Polish Soviet Socialist Republic
• State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbia, both later absorbed into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
• Greater Romania
• Kingdom of Italy
• Republic of China (former Austro-Hungarian concession of Tianjin)
• the short-lived Ruthenian (Ukrainian and Rusyn) proto-states of West Ukrainian People's Republic (later absorbed into Ukrainian People's Republic), Hutsul Republic, Lemko Republic, Komancza Republic and the Galician Soviet Socialist Republic; all were ultimately absorbed mostly into Poland, but also into Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia.

The Principality of Liechtenstein, which had formerly looked to Vienna for protection and whose ruling house held sizable real estate in Cisleithania, formed a customs and defense union with Switzerland, and adopted the Swiss currency instead of the Austrian. In April 1919, Vorarlberg{{Mdash}}the westernmost province of Austria{{Mdash}}voted by a large majority to join Switzerland; however, both the Swiss and the Allies disregarded this result.

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Cisleithania (Empire of Austria): 1. Bohemia, 2. Bukovina, 3. Carinthia, 4. Carniola, 5. Dalmatia, 6. Galicia, 7. Küstenland, 8. Lower Austria, 9. Moravia, 10. Salzburg, 11. Silesia, 12. Styria, 13. Tyrol, 14. Upper Austria, 15. Vorarlberg;
Transleithania (Kingdom of Hungary): 16. Hungary proper 17. Croatia-Slavonia; 18. Bosnia and Herzegovina (Austro-Hungarian condominium)

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The following present-day countries and parts of countries were within the boundaries of Austria–Hungary when the empire was dissolved. Some other provinces of Europe had been part of the Habsburg monarchy at one time before 1867.

Empire of Austria (Cisleithania):

• Austria (except Burgenland without Sopron)
• Czech Republic (except the Hlučínsko area)
• Slovenia (except Prekmurje)
• Italy (Trentino, South Tyrol, parts of the province of Belluno and small portions of Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
• Croatia (Dalmatia, Istria)
• Poland (voivodeships of Lesser Poland, Subcarpathia, southernmost part of Silesia (Bielsko and Cieszyn))
• Ukraine (oblasts of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil (except its northern corner) and most of the oblast of Chernivtsi)
• Romania (county of Suceava)
• Montenegro (bay of Boka Kotorska, the coast and the immediate hinterland around the cities of Budva, Petrovac and Sutomore)

Kingdom of Hungary (Transleithania):

• Hungary
• Slovakia
• Austria (Burgenland except Sopron)
• Slovenia (Prekmurje)
• Croatia (Croatian Baranja and Međimurje county, Fiume as corpus separatum along with Slavonia and Central Croatia were not part of Hungary proper, the latter two were part of the sovereign Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia)
• Ukraine (oblast of Zakarpattia)
• Romania (region of Transylvania, Partium and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș)
• Serbia (autonomous province of Vojvodina and northern Belgrade region)
• Poland (Polish parts of Orava and Spiš)

Austro-Hungarian Condominium

• Bosnia and Herzegovina (the villages of Zavalje, Mali Skočaj and Veliki Skočaj including the immediate surrounding area west of the city of Bihać)
• Montenegro (Sutorina – western part of the Municipality of Herceg Novi between present borders with Croatia (SW) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (NW), Adriatic coast (E) and the township of Igalo (NE))
• Sandžak-Raška region, Austro-Hungarian occupied 1878 until withdrawal in 1908 whilst formally part of the Ottoman Empire
• The Empire treated Bosnia-Herzegovina in much the same way the other powers treated their overseas colonies{{Sfn|Williamson|1991|p=63|loc="Through the occupation

Austria-Hungary became a colonial power."}}

Other possessions of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

• People's Republic of China (former Austro-Hungarian concession of Tianjin)

• Aftermath of World War I
• Austrian nobility
• Corporative federalism, a form of administration adopted by the Austro-Hungarian Empire
• Diplomatic history of World War I
• Austro-Hungarian entry into World War I
• Ethnic composition of Austria–Hungary
• Former countries in Europe after 1815
• Hungarian nobility
• Lands of the Bohemian Crown (1867–1918)
• United States of Greater Austria

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{{Further|Austro-Hungarian entry into World War I#Further reading}}

• Bassett, Richard. For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619–1918 (2016)
• {{Cite journal |last=Boyer |first=John W. |date=2003 |title=Silent War and Bitter Peace: The Revolution of 1918 in Austria |url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4ec5/cde9559a18aaacc0df715782bf8226b55798.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=Austrian History Yearbook |volume=34 |pages=1–56 |doi=10.1017/S0067237800020427 |s2cid=145716467 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211151007/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4ec5/cde9559a18aaacc0df715782bf8226b55798.pdf |archive-date=11 February 2020}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Cornwall |first=Mark |date=1992 |title=News, Rumour and the Control of Information in Austria–Hungary, 1914–1918 |journal=History |volume=77 |issue=249 |pages=50–64 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-229X.1992.tb02392.x}}
• {{Cite book |last=Cornwall |first=Mark |title=The Undermining of Austria–Hungary |date=2000 |isbn=978-1-3494-2240-1 |doi=10.1057/9780230286351}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Craig |first=Gordon A. |date=1965 |title=The World War I Alliance of the Central Powers in Retrospect: The Military Cohesion of the Alliance |journal=The Journal of Modern History |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=336–344 |doi=10.1086/600693 |jstor=1875406 |s2cid=154381768}}
• Crankshaw, Edward. The Fall of the House of Habsburg (Viking, 1963). pp. 449.
• Deak, John, and Jonathan E. Gumz. "How to Break a State: The Habsburg Monarchy's Internal War, 1914–1918" American Historical Review 122.4 (2017): 1105–1136. [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/267287355.pdf online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316112725/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/267287355.pdf |date=16 March 2023}}
• {{Cite book |last=Dedijer |first=Vladimir |title=The Road to Sarajevo |date=1966}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Grátz |first1=Gusztáv |title=The economic policy of Austria-Hungary during the war in its external relations |last2=Schüller |first2=Richard |date=1928 |publisher=Yale University Press |oclc=1065632 |ol=6715012M}}
• {{Cite book |last=Healy |first=Maureen |title=Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I |date=2007}}
• {{Cite book |last=Herweg |first=Holger H. |title=The First World War: Germany and Austria–Hungary 1914–1918 |date=2009}}
• {{Cite book |last=Jászi |first=Oszkár |author-link=Oszkár Jászi |title=The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy |date=1966 |publisher=University of Chicago Press}} [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.151077 online]
• {{Cite book |last=Jung |first=Peter |title=The Austro-Hungarian Forces in World War I (2) |date=2003 |publisher=Bloomsbury USA |isbn=1-8417-6594-5}}
• {{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/habsburgempirein00kann |title=The Habsburg Empire in World War I: Essays on the Intellectual, Military, Political and Economic Aspects of the Habsburg War Effort |date=1977 |publisher=East European Quarterly |isbn=0-9147-1016-8 |editor-last=Kann |editor-first=Robert A. |display-editors=et al.}}
• {{Cite book |last=Katzenstein |first=Peter J. |url=https://archive.org/details/disjoinedpartner00katz |title=Disjoined partners: Austria and Germany since 1815 |date=1976 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-5200-2945-3}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Kapp |first=Richard W. |date=1984 |title=Divided Loyalties: The German Reich and Austria–Hungary in Austro-German Discussions of War Aims, 1914–1916 |journal=Central European History |volume=17 |issue=2–3 |pages=120–139 |doi=10.1017/S0008938900016435 |s2cid=96478651}}
• Kronenbitter, Günther. "Pre-war Military Planning (Austria–Hungary)." [https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/pdf/1914-1918-Online-pre-war_military_planning_austria-hungary-2016-06-21.pdf online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305225841/https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/pdf/1914-1918-Online-pre-war_military_planning_austria-hungary-2016-06-21.pdf |date=5 March 2023}}
• {{Cite book |last=Rauchensteiner |first=Manfried |title=The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914–1918 |date=2014 |publisher=Böhlau Verlag |isbn=978-3-2057-9588-9 |location=Wien/Köln/Weimar}}
• Sked, Alan. "Austria–Hungary and the First World War." Histoire@ Politique 1 (2014): 16–49. [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?output=instlink&q=info:NIaCAcV_OMIJ:scholar.google.com/&sciodt=1,27&scillfp=13511954571189006328&oi=ll Online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601210553/https://scholar.google.com/scholar?output=instlink&q=info:NIaCAcV_OMIJ:scholar.google.com/&sciodt=1,27&scillfp=13511954571189006328&oi=ll |date=1 June 2022}}
• Tunstall, Graydon A. Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War (Cambridge University Press 2021) [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57600 online review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212212922/https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57600 |date=12 December 2022}}
• Vermes, Gabor István Tisza: The Liberal Vision and Conservative Statecraft of a Magyar Nationalist (Columbia University Press, 1986); [https://www.proquest.com/openview/72fa47c8eff2b658abec0b721f4c8656/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1819308 online review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305222523/https://www.proquest.com/openview/72fa47c8eff2b658abec0b721f4c8656/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1819308 |date=5 March 2023}}
• {{Cite book |last=Wawro |first=Geoffrey |title=A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire |date=2014}}
• {{Cite book |last=Zametica |first=John |title=Folly and malice: the Habsburg empire, the Balkans and the start of World War One |date=2017 |publisher=Shepheard–Walwyn |location=London |pages=416}}

• Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Austro-Hungarian red book. (1915) English translations of official documents to justify the war. [https://archive.org/details/austrohungarianr00inaust online]
• {{Cite journal |last=Baedeker |first=Karl |date=1906 |title=Austria–Hungary, Including Dalmatia and Bosnia. Handbook for Travellers |journal=Bulletin of the American Geographical Society |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=208 |doi=10.2307/197930 |jstor=197930 |hdl-access=free |hdl=2027/mdp.39015004037399}}
• Gooch, G. P. Recent Revelations of European Diplomacy (1940), pp. 103–159 summarizes memoirs of major participants
• Steed, Henry Wickham. The Hapsburg monarchy (1919) [https://archive.org/details/hapsburgmonarchy00steeuoft online] detailed contemporary account

• Boyd, Kelly, ed. Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writers (Rutledge, 1999) 1:60–63, historiography
• {{Cite journal |last=Deak |first=John |date=2014 |title=The Great War and the Forgotten Realm: The Habsburg Monarchy and the First World War |journal=The Journal of Modern History |volume=86 |issue=2 |pages=336–380 |doi=10.1086/675880 |s2cid=143481172}}
• Körner, Axel. "Beyond Nation States: New Perspectives on the Habsburg Empire." European History Quarterly 48.3 (2018): 516–533. [https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10054341/3/Korner_EHQ%20open%20access.pdf online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305230254/https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10054341/3/Korner_EHQ%20open%20access.pdf |date=5 March 2023}}
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• Articles relating to [https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/regions/Austria-Hungary Austria–Hungary] at the International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
• [http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/germany/haxhabsbdaust.html Habsburg Empire Austrian line]
• [http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579967_1____7/austria-hungary.html Microsoft Encarta: The height of the dual monarchy] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20090828223628/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579967_1____7/austria-hungary.html Archived] 31 October 2009)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20190103094710/http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/ The Austro-Hungarian Military]
• [http://www.ngw.nl/int/oos/ooshong/ooshong.htm Heraldry of the Austro-Hungarian Empire]
• {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112124023/http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Austria_Hungary.html|date=12 January 2008|title=Austria–Hungary}} – extensive list of heads of state, ministers, and ambassadors
• [http://www.geldschein.at/ History of Austro-Hungarian currency]
• [http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.o/o818181.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en Austria–Hungary, Dual Monarchy]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120414175743/http://maps.omniatlas.com/europe/19181025/ Map of Europe] and the collapse of Austria–Hungary at omniatlas.com
• [http://hdl.handle.net/1911/15059 Mangham, Arthur Neal. The Social Bases of Austrian Politics: The German Electoral Districts of Cisleithania, 1900–1914. Ph.D. thesis 1974]
• [http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/index.htm Austro-Hungarian Land Forces 1848–1918] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528102034/http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/index.htm |date=28 May 2014}}
• [http://www.oldphoto.info Oldphoto.info – Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Army]
• [http://www.h-net.org/~habsweb/ HABSBURG is an email discussion list dealing with the culture and history of the Habsburg monarchy and its successor states in central Europe since 1500], with discussions, syllabi, book reviews, queries, conferences; edited daily by scholars since 1994

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