Always enjoy digging deeper into these monarchies. Admittedly the history I remember from school glazed over Franz Ferdinand and the start of WWI, nice to get a bit more into the details.
Thanks so much for this man! I recently found out that my ancestor came from Dalmatia in 1911 and I tell you, tracing his roots has been a nightmare among all this chaos lol.
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Austria didn't lose that much of its territory because Bohemia and Galicia were never part of Austria proper. They were those "Kingdoms and Lands represented in the Imperial Council", which was the official name of the "Austrian" part of the monarchy. Austria lost Slovenia (Carniola) and South Tyrol and received Burgenland from Hungary. That's not so bad compared to Hungarian losses.
Please stop posting bullshit! It was the whole monarchy. How the parts are named and organized does not change that. I know one young Hungarian and he talked similar nonsense. I think they get this wrong history taught in school. It was one Empire with one Emperor, one Army, one foreign policy etc. That Hungarians always wanted to do their separate thing and not fund the Army and just boost their Honved, to allow only Hungarian in school etc. and just never get enough led to the downfall to the whole Empire in the end. I really could not care less about Hungarians whining about what "they lost"... they brought this upon themselves with their stubborn greedinass. For them it was never enough and many will feel victims up to this day. If they just had been willing to contribute to the whole Empire and not force they separate thing which of course pisses all other people off, it still could be there... with Transilvania and the rest being part of the Kingdom of Hungary being part of the Austrian Empire.
You shouldn't compare the land lost by the dual monarchies based on what land they actually owned. You should compare it by ethnic Hungarians or Germans now living in opposing nationstates and there were also aloot of Germans now living under hostile governance. Ofcourse the Germans of tyrol, Slovenia and the Sudetenland/Moravia but there were also significant German populations in Hungary, Transilvania and the Banat.
@@luitpoldwalterstorffer2446 I don't know what you are talking about. Austria didn't lose many historical lands. And many Germans lived in not historically Austrian lands. That's why they didn't really care about it. But Hungary lost its historical lands, many of them had Hungarian majority some centuries before, or even in that time, etc. It was not one empire, but two totally different state, and Austria was the dominant one, of course Hungary wanted independence as any other state would have done. You don't understand the situation. It was not one empire. It was Hungary which was conquered by the Austrian Empire, with brutal oppression most of the time, with etnhnic cleansings, etc. It was never enough? Austrians killed Hungarians for centuries, what the hell are you talking about? Btw Hungarians and all the other folks fought for the empire, more than 1 million soldiers died during the war. They did everything for the empire.
@@timeanagy8495 Austria owned South Tyrol, Slovenia, Bohemia, Istria and parts of Croatia for just about their entire history. The Austrian part of the empire mostly suppressed Protestants in the empire, which is a fair point. When the dual monarchy was established it was the Hungarians brutally oppressing all minorities in their borders, the Austrian half was willing to federalize the empire, and it was only the Hungarians who forced the, to stop. They forced the Austrians to avoid colonization, ethnic reform, military reform, ect. The Hungarians killed the empire
8:55 that short lived republic was a communist republic led by Bela Kun, but that regime quickly fell with a joint invasion by Romania and Czechoslovakia.
I'm a bit shocked that after Franz Ferdinand was killed that Franz Joseph didn't say out of some degree of frustration: "We're gonna need another heir to the throne."
An interesting thing to note for modern days around 2024 is that Austria-Hungary never really ceased to exist. Let me explain. As for most countires across the world it is normal for an economy to cooperate and trade mostly with its immediate neighbours. After the fall of communism Austrian banks were the first ones to expand to what is now Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary and they still hold a huge if not msot of the amrket share in these countries. Czechs, Slovaks and others love going to Croatia for Holiday and Hungary itself and balaton lake is also a famous tourist destination for many of the countries formerly part of Austria-Hungary. Czechs and Poles from across the border and also Hungarians love going to the tatra mountains in Slovakia. People often have houses and live across the border although work in their own countries or vice versa. Western Slovaks, South Czechs and western hungarians use the Vienna international airport more than airports in their own countries like Bratislava, Budapest or Prague. Czech companies pretty much run e-commerce in Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. Hungary exports its food products to all its neighbours. Slovakia and Hungary are drinking msotly czech beer. Manufacturing hubs in this region are common especially for the car industry. Vienna and Prague are common destinations for students from other countries. Slovenian biochemical, pharmaceutical and medical companies are also big in Slovakia and Hungary for example. Vienna is full of hungarian waiters and balkan cleaning ladies. Many companies in Slovakia are run by managers from Czechia. Cars driven in Czechia and Hungary are mostly manufactured in Slovakia. I could go on and on but you get the point. In a way thanks to the EU countries of Autria-hungary despite huge differences and current problems and challenges of course are getting way better along today than they did during the dual monarchy times.
3:53 why there are no Serbs there? Croats instead in the west Banat, east Syrmia, Baranya... and only Hungarians in south Backa... 1910 census has 1.8 mil Croats and 1.1 mil Serbs living in the Austria-Hungary
Serbia wanted to take the one point of the ultimatum they didn't agree with to the international tribunal at the Hague for arbitration,but Austria-Hungary rejected it arguing that rejection of any one part of the ultimatum was a rejection of the whole thing
As for the sole term of the Austro-Prussian ultimatum that Serbia rejected,well to say Serbia rejected it is kind of misleading. Serbia didn't reject it outright,they proposed submitting it to the international tribunal at the Hague,in other words,Serbia was suggesting third party arbitration of the disputed point of the ultimatum. Austria-Hungary interpreted Serbia wanting third party arbitration of the disputed point of the ultimatum as not only rejection of that part of the ultimatum,but rejection of the whole thing. But,as you pointed out, Austria-Hungary was itching for any reason to fight Serbia.
1. The reason why Italy didn't join WW1 with it's allies in the Triple Alliance was because as their treaty was a defensive pact and Austria-Hungary threw the 1st punch by declaring war on Serbia, it meant they could sit it out. 2. Why did Germany unconditionally help its Austro-Hungarian allies even though they threw the 1st punch by declaring war on Serbia? Because,by German calculations,if Austria-Hungary was left to its own devices against the Russians, they'd only last until 1917 at the most.
I'm very interested in that sort of thing! In fact, I already have a video like that for Australia and New Zealand. You can check it out here! ruclips.net/video/RHWm8CvtuS8/видео.html
Hey LBH! I just found your channel and have watched a few of your videos and oh man, your channel is massively underappreciated. Seriously tho these videos don't get any were near the views they should but hey, keep posting videos like these and I'm sure your channel will snowball in no time. On the video itself, I loved the way you approached the topic and mentioned specifics such as the corruption present in the army and the problem of nationalism/separatism among other things leading to the empires downfall. Anyhow man keep up the amazing work and I wish you all the best of luck! Ps: if I may make a suggestion for a video that people may find interesting, would be the birth and death of the Japanese empire. Now while the topic itself has been covered on youtube somewhat, one angle that hasn't been covered that you may like to cover is life inside the Japanese puppet states. For example how in manchuria, the Japanese forced it's subjects to learn Japanese for a multitude of reasons(assimilation suppression of potential rebellion, more informants and so on).
Thank you! It's comments like yours that really make producing these videos worth it! You can certainly make that suggestion. In fact, believe it or not, coming up with new topics for videos is one of the most difficult parts of the process so suggestions are great. I recently covered (very briefly) the Japanese Empire in the context of Korea, though it was within a Korean War video so it wasn't really the focus. Japanese history, especially from the Meiji Restoration forwards, actually really fascinates me and I've had a general "I want to do a Japan video" thought in the back of my mind for a while now. Framing it from the perspective of the puppet states could be an interesting take, either for the main video or perhaps in a small series. I can't make any promises (I've been known to change topics completely literally three days before release) but a Japanese video of some sort will certainly come in the future! Again, thanks for your comment!
@@LookBackHistory Hey man any take on the Japanese empire or any topic you chose is something I'll look forward to due to the production quality of these videos and(in my not some humble opinion) them appearing to improve in quality over time just makes it all the better. However you approach the topic, I look forward to it! So good luck and I'll see ya when you next upload and thanks for all the hard work!
@@LookBackHistory I also agree with his comments. I think your doing a much better job than all other history charnels on RUclips. You take a very serious approach. You certainly need more views and subscribers!
@@LookBackHistory I have a topic to propose, might be interesting: the origins of the Romanian people. There's this theory created in Austro-Hungarian history labs that Romanians somehow migrated from Albania and that for this reason they're not supposed to have territorial rights in Transylvania. To me, this is weird, because clearly much of Transylvania was part of the Roman empire and so the population got latinised, while obviously Albanians did not. It would be interesting to see how you approach this topic, if you have interest in it. I understand that Romanian language is close to the Sicilian dialect of Italian because a lot of impoverished Romans from Sicily/south Italy moved to Dacia (nowadays Romania), as their jobs had been taken over by slaves.
Fransisco franco tried offering the spanish crown to otto von Habsburg but he refused. probably because the spanish would not like a foreigner to be king.
Prussia wanted to unite Germany without Austria's other ethnic groups, Austria wanted to unite Germany with all ethnic groups under German rule. Prussian plan got succeed under Otto and then Hitler took that plan of Germany for Germans even further. Hence no wonder if Austrian plan of uniting Germany succeeded, not only there would be a larger geographical area for Germany but an ethnically diverse population living peacefully and contributing socially and culturally. Nonetheless European Union is dominated by Germany now and indirectly a German Empire just by how much influence on its economy Germany now plays.
Looking both at this video and comments, I can't get rid of the feeling that West doesn't know so vastly much, at least about the situation at the Balkans and Bosnia, where WWI started and where those things, elements, situations, constalations still exist. So, I'll give you hereby a short interpretation of serbian perspective which one can always reject if one wants, but can also be the eyes-oppening missing one. A small but honorable and heroic Kingdom of Serbia was a neighbouring- and rivaling kingdom to big austro-hungarian empire, inter alia- and even mainly because of its own (parallel with the austro-hungarian-) claims against Bosnia, but with far more justified motives. Bosnia has almost exclusively been populated by (bosnian-) serbian Christians, before turkish (Ottoman) occupation took place and Serbs were majority even 500 years after ottoman rule of Bosnia, so even at the dawn of WWI. During Ottoman occupation many of Bosnians converted to Islam in order to preserve their citizen rights, since "non faithful" (as Muslims called non Muslims i.e. Christians) during Ottoman rule were depraved of these, for instance - non Muslim was not allowed to ride a horse, to have their own shop, had to pay tax (Muslims were free from that) and to give one third of annual crops to his muslim feudal master, even to give his own bride the first night after wedding (Droit du seigneur)(interestingly enough, when one looks about last mentioned in Wikipedia (todays "Bible" i.e. Book of Truth), one will find about practice of this law in Osman Kingdom only in croatian version (language), all other ignore it!, while in croatian there's even detailed description about when, how (that the bride or doughter of the christian serf would be taken to aga's or beg's home and then there dressed in special muslim clothing (dimije), that the child born out of such intercourse would usually be killed by her closest, that therefore many young couples used to run away of the first night of wedding, etc) So, there's really informatics blockade, which people are not aware about, due to ignorance of such facts (since it's not from domestic experience), or consciousnessly. Anyway, centuries later, when Ottoman Empire started to weaken and finally lost it's grip over Bosnia and sold it to Austria-Hungary for dimes, Austrians (because of perfidious political reasons) continued with the anti Serb- and pro Muslim policy, preserving in Bosnia (among other things) the old feudal relations between non muslims (mostly serbian- and even croatian christian peasants) and the converted muslims (since almost all of ethnic Turks run back to Turkey after Bosnia became austrian), thus supporting the last pocket of feudalism in the West and causing revulsion especially in Paris and among all progressive and humanistic circles of that time Europe. Even Gavrilo (which is an ortodox variant of catholic/protestant Gabriel) Princip, when asked to explain his motives, mentioned that he was an offspring of serbian christian peasants, serfs, who lived very hard due to such laws (-established by Turks and preserved by Austrians). Did you know that Austria forbidden all/any serbian culture organisation in Bosnia already 1913.? And did you know that austrian General Stuff, with general Hötzendorf (anglicized as Hoetzendorf) on top, had already from 1908 repeatedly (5 times) called for preemptive war against Serbia? Austrian anexation of Bosnia to "mother Austria" (as official austrian media and propaganda called it) was fake already by such a name, since the population in Bosnia was south slavic and mainly serbian (together with bosnian Croats and converted bosnian Muslims, the latter by far being Serbs before ottoman ocupation and conversion to Islam) i.e. totally different from Austrians by language, culture, identity, customs, mentality. They (bosnian Serbs) have been dreaming for 500 years of freeing themselves from turkish slavery and uniting with their serbian brothers west of Drina, i.e. with Serbia. Those who converted to Islam got privileges and joined the exploiters side, becoming part of ruling turkish-muslim authorities (over non muslim peasants, since Bosnia was predominantly an agriculture economy) and were therefore excomunicated from (bosnian) Serbs and Croats (both in latter's and in their own understanding of national identity) and started to call themselves simply (bosnian) Muslims (while also all of the folk/religion bosnian groups called themselves also "Bosanci", i.e. "Bosnians", as a kind of regional marker). It was first in Tito's socialistic Yugoslavia that name- and category Muslim (with capital letter) became even officialy recognised as an nationality option, since bosnian muslims felt bad to be counted only either as (bosnian) Croats or Serbs, so they asked Tito about it and got it from him, since some of them fought bravely in Tito's partisans during WWII (while the others fought on Pavelic's and Hitler's side, for instance joining the notorious SS Handschar division, made mainly of them and even of Croats). Even state statistics shows that austro-hungarian main aim and ambition of annexation of Bosnia was a typical imperialistic one, since the level of illiteracy (among other things, no time and energy now to go in details) before/after Bosnia being austrian - remained almost the same (and big) and infrastructure invested and build from Austria (railway net, etc) was there mainly for exploitation of bosnian woods, harvest, etc, typically for an Empire against it's colony. Would even warmly recommend a short article about Schutzkorps in Wikipedia and good and interasting recent serbian film with young actors about assassination (there are subtitles in English), here is the link: ruclips.net/video/yTCpz8cvBUk/видео.html Enjoy!🙂
@Look Back History In July 1849, the Hungarian Revolutionary Parliament proclaimed and enacted the WORLD's FIRST laws on ethnic and minority rights. It gave minorities the freedom to use their mothertongue at local administration, at tribunals, in schools, in community life and even within the national guard of non-Magyar councils. However these laws were overturned after the united Russian and Austrian armies crushed the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. After the Kingdom of Hungary reached the Compromise with the Habsburg Dynasty in 1867 (Ausgleich), one of the first acts of the restored Hungarian Parliament was to pass a Law on Nationalities (Minority rights law: the act number XLIV of 1868). The situation of minorities in Hungary was not even comparable to the contemporary pre WW1 Europe. Other highly multiethnic /multinational countries were: France Russia and UK. See the multi-national UK: The situation of Scottish Irish and Welsh people in "Britain" during the English hegemony is well known. They utmost forgot their original language,only English language cultural educational institutions existed. The only language was English in judiciary procedures and in offices and public administrations. In Wales Welsh children were beaten by their teachers if they spoke Welsh among each others. This was the infamous “Welsh Not” policy... See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not The contemporary Irish question and tensions are well documented. The situation of Ireland was even a more brutal and bloody story. It was not a real "United" Kingdom, it was rather a greater England. English legal system did not know the minority rights until the post ww2 period. See the multiethnic France: In the era of the Great French revolution, only 25% of the population of Kingdom of France could speak the French language as mothertongue. But even in 1870, France was still similar-degree multi-ethnic state as Hungary, only 50% of the population of France spoke the French language as mothertongue. The other half of the population spoke Occitan, Breton, Provençal, Catalan, Corsican, Alsatian, West Flemish, Lorraine Franconian, Gallo, Picard or Ch’timi and Arpitan etc... Many minority languages were closer to Spanish languages or Italian language than French) French governments banned minority language schools, minority language newspapers minority theaters. They banned the usage of minority languages in offices , public administration, and judiciary procedures. The ratio of french mothertongue increased from 50% to 91% during the 1870-1910 period!!! The situation in German Empire was well known (Polish territories and Sorbs) Just look some Eastern countries in the oriental so-called Eurasian (aka. Orthodox) civilization : The legal system of pre-WW1 Kingdom of Serbia did not know minority rights. Also, the legal system of pre-WW1 Kingdom of Romania did not know minority rights, morover, Kingdom of Romania applied strong anti-Semitic discriminative laws against Jewish people, which was similar to Tzarist Russia. Read about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Romania#Treaty_of_Berlin_and_aftermath Slavery disappeared during the high medieval period on Western Christian European soil, however, it existed in Romanian territories until the mid 19th century! The Gypsy slavery and slave markets were abolished only in 1852!!! (Gypsies of Romania had similar status like blacks in USA before the civil war) See: books.google.com/books?id=df2mIOnbrDoC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=gypsy+%22slave+markets%22+romania&source=bl&ots=5MY5_TxutD&sig=ACfU3U1E8Dvv2rkKhRSfOrnAbfwQgnlv3g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwith4_qqbntAhWSuIsKHZ37CpwQ6AEwAXoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=gypsy%20%22slave%20markets%22%20romania&f=false and see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Romania Just examine the high contrast between the Kingdom of Hungary and contemporary pre WW1-era Europe: The so-called "Magyarization" fantasy was not so harsh as the contemporary western European situation, because the minorities were defended by minority rights and laws. Contemporary Western European legal systems did not know the minority rights, therefore their political leaders loudly and proudly covered up their minorities by the force of law. 1.Were there state-sponsored minority schools in Western European countries? NO. 2. How many official languages existed in Western-European states? Only 1 official language! 3. Could minorities use their languages in the offices of public administration in self-governments , in tribunals in Western Europe? No, they couldn't. 4. Did the minorities have own fractions and political parties in the western European parliaments ? No, no they hadn't. 5. What about newspapers of ethnic minorities in Western Europe? They did not exist in the West.... We can continue these things to infinity.
@@cs0345 Yugoslavia was formed by a union of the Kingdom of Serbia which incorporated present day Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Baranja AND the unrecognised State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs being the Yugoslav lands which prior to WWI were under the rule of Austria-Hungary (ie. Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina)... After WWII, the Communists disenfranchised every Serb west of the Drina, gave Macedonia republic status, gave the Bosnian Muslims nationhood, sowed the seeds for the Kosovo disaster etc. while the Yugoslav president for life was half Slovene, half Croat... Yugoslavia was one of the great tragedies to befall the Serbian nation up there with the Ottoman conquests in the 14th and 15th centuries and the genocide suffered in WWII
People always forget Croatian role in all this Austria-Hungary Habsburg Monarchy. 1. Josip Jelačić 1848 2. Emil Uzelac 3. Austria-Hungary Navy (the most members were Croats) 4. Pragmatic Sanction in 1712 5. Cetingradski sabor 1527
It certainly was a bit confusing; two states effectively made up one country! On the other hand, pretty much every country throughout history has had its own unique, complicated factor in some way or another. Its one of the things that keeps history interesting!
it was unique, it was two states. before that they had large countries, in the end the Habsburg empire was just the Habsburg family's empire, a loose empire, not harsh, not cruel, or least. they didn't conquer half of the world, killing millions, and assimilated, oppressed other countries like the British. btw Austria-Hungary existed since 1867. but before that too, in another form. In the end the empire meant the Habsburg family. when everything collapsed, the Habsburg monarchy was over. nobody liked them. Btw it's interesting, I heard once, that the Habsburg's for the first time was elected to the German caesar because they were so weak, a family from SWitzerland, as a compromise. but later the family emerged, became a very strong monarchy, with clever marriages
The creation of the Dual Monarchy was yet another example of what I call a "Habsburg Compromise" because it pleased no one The more conservative elements in government were upset as they felt it gave the Hungarians too much power and they weren't totally wrong as Franz Joseph wanted to aid France during the Franco-Prussian War, but the Hungarians were against it,so the Dual Monarchy sat the war out. The other minorities/peoples in the empire were very discontent and were openly saying "What about us? "Why don't we have a say?"
My opinion is because there were a lot of non German and non Hungarian ethnicities that wanted self representation and independence. Also, many of these ethnicities were forced to undergo magyarizartion where they could not speak or write in their own language, forced to change names and their religion was suppressed. Under those conditions who would want to stay apart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire? How do you unify people that have different languages, cultures and religion, while trying to suppress this and force your own culture?
Because Austrians usually use the other minorities to supress hungarians, and when they see that the Slavs and vlachs outnumber them, then quickly switch them with the huns, but Huns dont have enough cruelty to deal with them like France or England did with their minorities.
I donno about the Austrian part (Austria and Hungary were two states, and Hungary itself was two-three states for centuries). There were many minorities in masses and it's hard to assimilate such people who live amongst their own folks, who speak only their own language, etc. Until the 19th century it was not even a problem because the idea of nations didn't exist. And until 1867 Hungary didn't have many opportunities in politics. Austria also brought some minorities to Hungary to weaken the Hungarians. The Serbians were very wild people, and didn't even hide that they want lands from Hungary even when they were not even majority in many lands and Hungary welcomed them as refugees. The language was also very different, Slavic, the Latin Romanian and the Hungarian which was incredibly hard to learn and ca. 10 other language. The whole region is bad at assimilating. It was not the USA or Canada. And maybe the minority policy was not harsh at all while in other states, Germany, Italy, France, England there were brutal methods to assimilate, to use only one language (see the Scots, Welsh). The empire had a very good, tolerant minorities policy, didn't even want brutal assimilation. But in some cases some kind of assmilation happend. Between Slovakians, Hungarians or Ruthenians in northern Hungary. In a year a person called himself Hungarian, then Slovakian, then Hungarian again. Many minorities were loyal to Hungary despite their own language, culture. Like Ruthenians, Slovakians, maybe some Romanians, Croatians. And of course the Germans who assimilated very fast later into Hungary. Althought there were some hate sometimes, like the Germans of Banat, they were on Austria' side, they had more rights, Austria separated Banat from Hungary from a long time and settled down Germans. The jws also assimilated relatively well into Hungary.
@@timeanagy8495 my maternal part of family or her maternal part are of "Hungarian" descent. I said "Hung" because they were originally Slovaks Kožik who were magyarized. There was an old man in my street with Serbian first and last name but he was completely Magyarized known under his Hungarian name version as Pista, he struggled big time with Serb language, married Hungarian woman (of Slovak origin) and their son is now again feeling as Hungarian although has little actual Hungarian background. But that was politics of Hungary during Austra-Hungarian Empire, they controlled huge territory on which they were not majority. To create stability they had to assimilate as much as they could to expand their nation on territory they controlled by force
@@sahibbhadal but the German Confederation was not a country. And even if it was why would Bohemia and Moravia be a part of it? They don't speak German, they're not even ethnic German, the Czechs are a Slavic people.
Thanks for stating that Austria Hungary needed the help of Germany even against Serbia, the same happened to Romania except that Romania was never fully occupied
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Always enjoy digging deeper into these monarchies. Admittedly the history I remember from school glazed over Franz Ferdinand and the start of WWI, nice to get a bit more into the details.
Glad you got something out of it!
Great video man! Austia-hungary is an interesting topic!
Thank you!
The Dual Monarchy has always fascinated me; the politics behind it are just so complicated! Its great!
Excellent video. Thank you!
I always enjoy a new take on WWI, great video!
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Thanks so much for this man! I recently found out that my ancestor came from Dalmatia in 1911 and I tell you, tracing his roots has been a nightmare among all this chaos lol.
Oh cool!
from what part of Dalmatia?
Half of my great grandparents' origins are Burgenland, and I'm confident they burnt half of the Hungarian records for giggles one random day
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Nice summary of this part of history. Thanks
Austria didn't lose that much of its territory because Bohemia and Galicia were never part of Austria proper. They were those "Kingdoms and Lands represented in the Imperial Council", which was the official name of the "Austrian" part of the monarchy. Austria lost Slovenia (Carniola) and South Tyrol and received Burgenland from Hungary. That's not so bad compared to Hungarian losses.
Please stop posting bullshit! It was the whole monarchy. How the parts are named and organized does not change that. I know one young Hungarian and he talked similar nonsense. I think they get this wrong history taught in school. It was one Empire with one Emperor, one Army, one foreign policy etc.
That Hungarians always wanted to do their separate thing and not fund the Army and just boost their Honved, to allow only Hungarian in school etc. and just never get enough led to the downfall to the whole Empire in the end. I really could not care less about Hungarians whining about what "they lost"... they brought this upon themselves with their stubborn greedinass. For them it was never enough and many will feel victims up to this day. If they just had been willing to contribute to the whole Empire and not force they separate thing which of course pisses all other people off, it still could be there... with Transilvania and the rest being part of the Kingdom of Hungary being part of the Austrian Empire.
You shouldn't compare the land lost by the dual monarchies based on what land they actually owned. You should compare it by ethnic Hungarians or Germans now living in opposing nationstates and there were also aloot of Germans now living under hostile governance. Ofcourse the Germans of tyrol, Slovenia and the Sudetenland/Moravia but there were also significant German populations in Hungary, Transilvania and the Banat.
@@luitpoldwalterstorffer2446 I don't know what you are talking about. Austria didn't lose many historical lands. And many Germans lived in not historically Austrian lands. That's why they didn't really care about it. But Hungary lost its historical lands, many of them had Hungarian majority some centuries before, or even in that time, etc. It was not one empire, but two totally different state, and Austria was the dominant one, of course Hungary wanted independence as any other state would have done. You don't understand the situation. It was not one empire. It was Hungary which was conquered by the Austrian Empire, with brutal oppression most of the time, with etnhnic cleansings, etc. It was never enough? Austrians killed Hungarians for centuries, what the hell are you talking about? Btw Hungarians and all the other folks fought for the empire, more than 1 million soldiers died during the war. They did everything for the empire.
Never knew what that meant.😂 Thaks for clearing it up.
@@timeanagy8495 Austria owned South Tyrol, Slovenia, Bohemia, Istria and parts of Croatia for just about their entire history. The Austrian part of the empire mostly suppressed Protestants in the empire, which is a fair point. When the dual monarchy was established it was the Hungarians brutally oppressing all minorities in their borders, the Austrian half was willing to federalize the empire, and it was only the Hungarians who forced the, to stop. They forced the Austrians to avoid colonization, ethnic reform, military reform, ect. The Hungarians killed the empire
how do you only have so few subscribers??? this is good content!
Thanks! I've actually been growing pretty fast recently, so I hope that will continue!
@@LookBackHistory Good luck!
8:55 that short lived republic was a communist republic led by Bela Kun, but that regime quickly fell with a joint invasion by Romania and Czechoslovakia.
0:45 Look at the big brain on Ferdinand!
-Samuel L Jackson
I'm a bit shocked that after Franz Ferdinand was killed that Franz Joseph didn't say out of some degree of frustration:
"We're gonna need another heir to the throne."
Thank you for sharing this lesson. 👑
You are so welcome!
I can only imagine at least one of Franz Joseph's reactions to the death of Franz Ferdinand:
"We're gonna need another heir to the throne."
happy Monday! hope u had a great weekend and fathers day. wanted to say hi and be safe and awesome history lesson
Thank! Happy Monday to you as well!
Great work on my home country!
An interesting thing to note for modern days around 2024 is that Austria-Hungary never really ceased to exist. Let me explain. As for most countires across the world it is normal for an economy to cooperate and trade mostly with its immediate neighbours. After the fall of communism Austrian banks were the first ones to expand to what is now Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary and they still hold a huge if not msot of the amrket share in these countries. Czechs, Slovaks and others love going to Croatia for Holiday and Hungary itself and balaton lake is also a famous tourist destination for many of the countries formerly part of Austria-Hungary. Czechs and Poles from across the border and also Hungarians love going to the tatra mountains in Slovakia. People often have houses and live across the border although work in their own countries or vice versa. Western Slovaks, South Czechs and western hungarians use the Vienna international airport more than airports in their own countries like Bratislava, Budapest or Prague. Czech companies pretty much run e-commerce in Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary.
Hungary exports its food products to all its neighbours. Slovakia and Hungary are drinking msotly czech beer. Manufacturing hubs in this region are common especially for the car industry. Vienna and Prague are common destinations for students from other countries. Slovenian biochemical, pharmaceutical and medical companies are also big in Slovakia and Hungary for example. Vienna is full of hungarian waiters and balkan cleaning ladies. Many companies in Slovakia are run by managers from Czechia. Cars driven in Czechia and Hungary are mostly manufactured in Slovakia. I could go on and on but you get the point. In a way thanks to the EU countries of Autria-hungary despite huge differences and current problems and challenges of course are getting way better along today than they did during the dual monarchy times.
Another great informative video. Bravo👏👏👏
Glad you liked it!
@@LookBackHistory Keep up the good work⌚👔💼👍☺
3:53 why there are no Serbs there? Croats instead in the west Banat, east Syrmia, Baranya... and only Hungarians in south Backa... 1910 census has 1.8 mil Croats and 1.1 mil Serbs living in the Austria-Hungary
Background music name?
@@digantachowdhury6515 Mozart 🤔
Serbia wanted to take the one point of the ultimatum they didn't agree with to the international tribunal at the Hague for arbitration,but Austria-Hungary rejected it arguing that rejection of any one part of the ultimatum was a rejection of the whole thing
Complicated history but well explained. Loved the music.
Yes, Mozart was born in Salzburg so I thought it was appropriate!
As for the sole term of the Austro-Prussian ultimatum that Serbia rejected,well to say Serbia rejected it is kind of misleading.
Serbia didn't reject it outright,they proposed submitting it to the international tribunal at the Hague,in other words,Serbia was suggesting third party arbitration of the disputed point of the ultimatum.
Austria-Hungary interpreted Serbia wanting third party arbitration of the disputed point of the ultimatum as not only rejection of that part of the ultimatum,but rejection of the whole thing.
But,as you pointed out, Austria-Hungary was itching for any reason to fight Serbia.
1. The reason why Italy didn't join WW1 with it's allies in the Triple Alliance was because as their treaty was a defensive pact and Austria-Hungary threw the 1st punch by declaring war on Serbia, it meant they could sit it out.
2. Why did Germany unconditionally help its Austro-Hungarian allies even though they threw the 1st punch by declaring war on Serbia?
Because,by German calculations,if Austria-Hungary was left to its own devices against the Russians, they'd only last until 1917 at the most.
Once again a Prussian/German border is failed by their moden counterparts: 0:12 Prussia / Belgium. this is the modern border, not the old one.
hello there, would you like to do videos discussing countries' relationships throughout time??
I'm very interested in that sort of thing! In fact, I already have a video like that for Australia and New Zealand. You can check it out here! ruclips.net/video/RHWm8CvtuS8/видео.html
@@LookBackHistory what about Poland and Romania? or Hungary and its Slavic neighbors???
@@LookBackHistory what about Poland and Romania? or Hungary and its Slavic neighbors???
@@diegoragot655 Maybe :)
there is still the habsburgs alive, karl von habsburg and his children are living in austria
Hey LBH! I just found your channel and have watched a few of your videos and oh man, your channel is massively underappreciated. Seriously tho these videos don't get any were near the views they should but hey, keep posting videos like these and I'm sure your channel will snowball in no time.
On the video itself, I loved the way you approached the topic and mentioned specifics such as the corruption present in the army and the problem of nationalism/separatism among other things leading to the empires downfall. Anyhow man keep up the amazing work and I wish you all the best of luck!
Ps: if I may make a suggestion for a video that people may find interesting, would be the birth and death of the Japanese empire. Now while the topic itself has been covered on youtube somewhat, one angle that hasn't been covered that you may like to cover is life inside the Japanese puppet states. For example how in manchuria, the Japanese forced it's subjects to learn Japanese for a multitude of reasons(assimilation suppression of potential rebellion, more informants and so on).
Thank you! It's comments like yours that really make producing these videos worth it!
You can certainly make that suggestion. In fact, believe it or not, coming up with new topics for videos is one of the most difficult parts of the process so suggestions are great. I recently covered (very briefly) the Japanese Empire in the context of Korea, though it was within a Korean War video so it wasn't really the focus. Japanese history, especially from the Meiji Restoration forwards, actually really fascinates me and I've had a general "I want to do a Japan video" thought in the back of my mind for a while now. Framing it from the perspective of the puppet states could be an interesting take, either for the main video or perhaps in a small series. I can't make any promises (I've been known to change topics completely literally three days before release) but a Japanese video of some sort will certainly come in the future!
Again, thanks for your comment!
@@LookBackHistory Hey man any take on the Japanese empire or any topic you chose is something I'll look forward to due to the production quality of these videos and(in my not some humble opinion) them appearing to improve in quality over time just makes it all the better. However you approach the topic, I look forward to it! So good luck and I'll see ya when you next upload and thanks for all the hard work!
@@LookBackHistory I also agree with his comments. I think your doing a much better job than all other history charnels on RUclips. You take a very serious approach. You certainly need more views and subscribers!
@@LookBackHistory I have a topic to propose, might be interesting: the origins of the Romanian people. There's this theory created in Austro-Hungarian history labs that Romanians somehow migrated from Albania and that for this reason they're not supposed to have territorial rights in Transylvania. To me, this is weird, because clearly much of Transylvania was part of the Roman empire and so the population got latinised, while obviously Albanians did not. It would be interesting to see how you approach this topic, if you have interest in it. I understand that Romanian language is close to the Sicilian dialect of Italian because a lot of impoverished Romans from Sicily/south Italy moved to Dacia (nowadays Romania), as their jobs had been taken over by slaves.
0:45 Holy Molly! The Habsburgs are famous for their chin, but this guy has a huge head!
Fransisco franco tried offering the spanish crown to otto von Habsburg but he refused. probably because the spanish would not like a foreigner to be king.
3:50 YOU FORGOT SERBS
4:40 General Franz Conrad Hoetzendorf, chief of staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
Seems the same is happening now with Ukraine (in the role of Serbia) and Russia in the role of the Austro-Hungarian empire
Prussia wanted to unite Germany without Austria's other ethnic groups, Austria wanted to unite Germany with all ethnic groups under German rule. Prussian plan got succeed under Otto and then Hitler took that plan of Germany for Germans even further. Hence no wonder if Austrian plan of uniting Germany succeeded, not only there would be a larger geographical area for Germany but an ethnically diverse population living peacefully and contributing socially and culturally. Nonetheless European Union is dominated by Germany now and indirectly a German Empire just by how much influence on its economy Germany now plays.
Looking both at this video and comments, I can't get rid of the feeling that West doesn't know so vastly much, at least about the situation at the Balkans and Bosnia, where WWI started and where those things, elements, situations, constalations still exist.
So, I'll give you hereby a short interpretation of serbian perspective which one can always reject if one wants, but can also be the eyes-oppening missing one.
A small but honorable and heroic Kingdom of Serbia was a neighbouring- and rivaling kingdom to big austro-hungarian empire, inter alia- and even mainly because of its own (parallel with the austro-hungarian-) claims against Bosnia, but with far more justified motives.
Bosnia has almost exclusively been populated by (bosnian-) serbian Christians, before turkish (Ottoman) occupation took place and Serbs were majority even 500 years after ottoman rule of Bosnia, so even at the dawn of WWI. During Ottoman occupation many of Bosnians converted to Islam in order to preserve their citizen rights, since "non faithful" (as Muslims called non Muslims i.e. Christians) during Ottoman rule were depraved of these, for instance - non Muslim was not allowed to ride a horse, to have their own shop, had to pay tax (Muslims were free from that) and to give one third of annual crops to his muslim feudal master, even to give his own bride the first night after wedding (Droit du seigneur)(interestingly enough, when one looks about last mentioned in Wikipedia (todays "Bible" i.e. Book of Truth), one will find about practice of this law in Osman Kingdom only in croatian version (language), all other ignore it!, while in croatian there's even detailed description about when, how (that the bride or doughter of the christian serf would be taken to aga's or beg's home and then there dressed in special muslim clothing (dimije), that the child born out of such intercourse would usually be killed by her closest, that therefore many young couples used to run away of the first night of wedding, etc) So, there's really informatics blockade, which people are not aware about, due to ignorance of such facts (since it's not from domestic experience), or consciousnessly.
Anyway, centuries later, when Ottoman Empire started to weaken and finally lost it's grip over Bosnia and sold it to Austria-Hungary for dimes, Austrians (because of perfidious political reasons) continued with the anti Serb- and pro Muslim policy, preserving in Bosnia (among other things) the old feudal relations between non muslims (mostly serbian- and even croatian christian peasants) and the converted muslims (since almost all of ethnic Turks run back to Turkey after Bosnia became austrian), thus supporting the last pocket of feudalism in the West and causing revulsion especially in Paris and among all progressive and humanistic circles of that time Europe. Even Gavrilo (which is an ortodox variant of catholic/protestant Gabriel) Princip, when asked to explain his motives, mentioned that he was an offspring of serbian christian peasants, serfs, who lived very hard due to such laws (-established by Turks and preserved by Austrians).
Did you know that Austria forbidden all/any serbian culture organisation in Bosnia already 1913.?
And did you know that austrian General Stuff, with general Hötzendorf (anglicized as Hoetzendorf) on top, had already from 1908 repeatedly (5 times) called for preemptive war against Serbia?
Austrian anexation of Bosnia to "mother Austria" (as official austrian media and propaganda called it) was fake already by such a name, since the population in Bosnia was south slavic and mainly serbian (together with bosnian Croats and converted bosnian Muslims, the latter by far being Serbs before ottoman ocupation and conversion to Islam) i.e. totally different from Austrians by language, culture, identity, customs, mentality. They (bosnian Serbs) have been dreaming for 500 years of freeing themselves from turkish slavery and uniting with their serbian brothers west of Drina, i.e. with Serbia. Those who converted to Islam got privileges and joined the exploiters side, becoming part of ruling turkish-muslim authorities (over non muslim peasants, since Bosnia was predominantly an agriculture economy) and were therefore excomunicated from (bosnian) Serbs and Croats (both in latter's and in their own understanding of national identity) and started to call themselves simply (bosnian) Muslims (while also all of the folk/religion bosnian groups called themselves also "Bosanci", i.e. "Bosnians", as a kind of regional marker). It was first in Tito's socialistic Yugoslavia that name- and category Muslim (with capital letter) became even officialy recognised as an nationality option, since bosnian muslims felt bad to be counted only either as (bosnian) Croats or Serbs, so they asked Tito about it and got it from him, since some of them fought bravely in Tito's partisans during WWII (while the others fought on Pavelic's and Hitler's side, for instance joining the notorious SS Handschar division, made mainly of them and even of Croats).
Even state statistics shows that austro-hungarian main aim and ambition of annexation of Bosnia was a typical imperialistic one, since the level of illiteracy (among other things, no time and energy now to go in details) before/after Bosnia being austrian - remained almost the same (and big) and infrastructure invested and build from Austria (railway net, etc) was there mainly for exploitation of bosnian woods, harvest, etc, typically for an Empire against it's colony.
Would even warmly recommend a short article about Schutzkorps in Wikipedia and good and interasting recent serbian film with young actors about assassination (there are subtitles in English), here is the link: ruclips.net/video/yTCpz8cvBUk/видео.html
Enjoy!🙂
@Look Back History In July 1849, the Hungarian Revolutionary Parliament proclaimed and enacted the WORLD's FIRST laws on ethnic and minority rights. It gave minorities the freedom to use their mothertongue at local administration, at tribunals, in schools, in community life and even within the national guard of non-Magyar councils. However these laws were overturned after the united Russian and Austrian armies crushed the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
After the Kingdom of Hungary reached the Compromise with the Habsburg Dynasty in 1867 (Ausgleich), one of the first acts of the restored Hungarian Parliament was to pass a Law on Nationalities (Minority rights law: the act number XLIV of 1868).
The situation of minorities in Hungary was not even comparable to the contemporary pre WW1 Europe. Other highly multiethnic /multinational countries were: France Russia and UK.
See the multi-national UK:
The situation of Scottish Irish and Welsh people in "Britain" during the English hegemony is well known. They utmost forgot their original language,only English language cultural educational institutions existed. The only language was English in judiciary procedures and in offices and public administrations. In Wales Welsh children were beaten by their teachers if they spoke Welsh among each others. This was the infamous “Welsh Not” policy... See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not
The contemporary Irish question and tensions are well documented. The situation of Ireland was even a more brutal and bloody story. It was not a real "United" Kingdom, it was rather a greater England.
English legal system did not know the minority rights until the post ww2 period.
See the multiethnic France:
In the era of the Great French revolution, only 25% of the population of Kingdom of France could speak the French language as mothertongue. But even in 1870, France was still similar-degree multi-ethnic state as Hungary, only 50% of the population of France spoke the French language as mothertongue. The other half of the population spoke Occitan, Breton, Provençal, Catalan, Corsican, Alsatian, West Flemish, Lorraine Franconian, Gallo, Picard or Ch’timi and Arpitan etc... Many minority languages were closer to Spanish languages or Italian language than French) French governments banned minority language schools, minority language newspapers minority theaters. They banned the usage of minority languages in offices , public administration, and judiciary procedures. The ratio of french mothertongue increased from 50% to 91% during the 1870-1910 period!!!
The situation in German Empire was well known (Polish territories and Sorbs)
Just look some Eastern countries in the oriental so-called Eurasian (aka. Orthodox) civilization :
The legal system of pre-WW1 Kingdom of Serbia did not know minority rights.
Also, the legal system of pre-WW1 Kingdom of Romania did not know minority rights, morover, Kingdom of Romania applied strong anti-Semitic discriminative laws against Jewish people, which was similar to Tzarist Russia. Read about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Romania#Treaty_of_Berlin_and_aftermath
Slavery disappeared during the high medieval period on Western Christian European soil, however, it existed in Romanian territories until the mid 19th century! The Gypsy slavery and slave markets were abolished only in 1852!!! (Gypsies of Romania had similar status like blacks in USA before the civil war) See: books.google.com/books?id=df2mIOnbrDoC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=gypsy+%22slave+markets%22+romania&source=bl&ots=5MY5_TxutD&sig=ACfU3U1E8Dvv2rkKhRSfOrnAbfwQgnlv3g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwith4_qqbntAhWSuIsKHZ37CpwQ6AEwAXoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=gypsy%20%22slave%20markets%22%20romania&f=false and see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Romania
Just examine the high contrast between the Kingdom of Hungary and contemporary pre WW1-era Europe:
The so-called "Magyarization" fantasy was not so harsh as the contemporary western European situation, because the minorities were defended by minority rights and laws. Contemporary Western European legal systems did not know the minority rights, therefore their political leaders loudly and proudly covered up their minorities by the force of law.
1.Were there state-sponsored minority schools in Western European countries? NO.
2. How many official languages existed in Western-European states? Only 1 official language!
3. Could minorities use their languages in the offices of public administration in self-governments , in tribunals in Western Europe? No, they couldn't.
4. Did the minorities have own fractions and political parties in the western European parliaments ? No, no they hadn't.
5. What about newspapers of ethnic minorities in Western Europe? They did not exist in the West.... We can continue these things to infinity.
And now a Habsburg member and direct relative is a successful racing car driver. Go figure
Glazed over how horrible the treaties were at the end.
Didn't Serbia an by assists of russia and Great Britain accept 8/10 dema listed on the paper
Gavrilo Princip was more a Yugoslav nationalist
Yugoslavia was basically greater Serbia
@@cs0345 Yugoslavia was formed by a union of the Kingdom of Serbia which incorporated present day Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Baranja AND the unrecognised State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs being the Yugoslav lands which prior to WWI were under the rule of Austria-Hungary (ie. Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina)... After WWII, the Communists disenfranchised every Serb west of the Drina, gave Macedonia republic status, gave the Bosnian Muslims nationhood, sowed the seeds for the Kosovo disaster etc. while the Yugoslav president for life was half Slovene, half Croat... Yugoslavia was one of the great tragedies to befall the Serbian nation up there with the Ottoman conquests in the 14th and 15th centuries and the genocide suffered in WWII
We were forced into the empire...
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0 Hungary
Thanks i have a school presentation about the fall of austria-hungary empire this helpd
+1 sub from me
Great! I hope the presentation goes well!
8:59 Adm. Miklos Horthy.
World War I
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i dont understand how you dont have at least 3k subs lol
Well, I haven't been on RUclips for very long, I'm sure more will come! I hope you enjoyed!
People always forget Croatian role in all this Austria-Hungary Habsburg Monarchy.
1. Josip Jelačić 1848
2. Emil Uzelac
3. Austria-Hungary Navy (the most members were Croats)
4. Pragmatic Sanction in 1712
5. Cetingradski sabor 1527
Austria Hungary empire is a confusing empire, they didn't do well with the different countries as the British, Russian, and many others.
It certainly was a bit confusing; two states effectively made up one country! On the other hand, pretty much every country throughout history has had its own unique, complicated factor in some way or another. Its one of the things that keeps history interesting!
it was unique, it was two states. before that they had large countries, in the end the Habsburg empire was just the Habsburg family's empire, a loose empire, not harsh, not cruel, or least. they didn't conquer half of the world, killing millions, and assimilated, oppressed other countries like the British. btw Austria-Hungary existed since 1867. but before that too, in another form. In the end the empire meant the Habsburg family. when everything collapsed, the Habsburg monarchy was over. nobody liked them. Btw it's interesting, I heard once, that the Habsburg's for the first time was elected to the German caesar because they were so weak, a family from SWitzerland, as a compromise. but later the family emerged, became a very strong monarchy, with clever marriages
The creation of the Dual Monarchy was yet another example of what I call a "Habsburg Compromise" because it pleased no one
The more conservative elements in government were upset as they felt it gave the Hungarians too much power and they weren't totally wrong as Franz Joseph wanted to aid France during the Franco-Prussian War, but the Hungarians were against it,so the Dual Monarchy sat the war out.
The other minorities/peoples in the empire were very discontent and were openly saying "What about us? "Why don't we have a say?"
why was Austria Hungary so bad at assimilating and unifying the non German populations?
My opinion is because there were a lot of non German and non Hungarian ethnicities that wanted self representation and independence. Also, many of these ethnicities were forced to undergo magyarizartion where they could not speak or write in their own language, forced to change names and their religion was suppressed. Under those conditions who would want to stay apart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire? How do you unify people that have different languages, cultures and religion, while trying to suppress this and force your own culture?
Because Austrians usually use the other minorities to supress hungarians, and when they see that the Slavs and vlachs outnumber them, then quickly switch them with the huns, but Huns dont have enough cruelty to deal with them like France or England did with their minorities.
and why should we had to be assimilated by them? it was not like people willingly immigrated there. it was conquering empire
I donno about the Austrian part (Austria and Hungary were two states, and Hungary itself was two-three states for centuries). There were many minorities in masses and it's hard to assimilate such people who live amongst their own folks, who speak only their own language, etc. Until the 19th century it was not even a problem because the idea of nations didn't exist. And until 1867 Hungary didn't have many opportunities in politics. Austria also brought some minorities to Hungary to weaken the Hungarians. The Serbians were very wild people, and didn't even hide that they want lands from Hungary even when they were not even majority in many lands and Hungary welcomed them as refugees. The language was also very different, Slavic, the Latin Romanian and the Hungarian which was incredibly hard to learn and ca. 10 other language. The whole region is bad at assimilating. It was not the USA or Canada. And maybe the minority policy was not harsh at all while in other states, Germany, Italy, France, England there were brutal methods to assimilate, to use only one language (see the Scots, Welsh). The empire had a very good, tolerant minorities policy, didn't even want brutal assimilation. But in some cases some kind of assmilation happend. Between Slovakians, Hungarians or Ruthenians in northern Hungary. In a year a person called himself Hungarian, then Slovakian, then Hungarian again. Many minorities were loyal to Hungary despite their own language, culture. Like Ruthenians, Slovakians, maybe some Romanians, Croatians. And of course the Germans who assimilated very fast later into Hungary. Althought there were some hate sometimes, like the Germans of Banat, they were on Austria' side, they had more rights, Austria separated Banat from Hungary from a long time and settled down Germans. The jws also assimilated relatively well into Hungary.
@@timeanagy8495 my maternal part of family or her maternal part are of "Hungarian" descent. I said "Hung" because they were originally Slovaks Kožik who were magyarized. There was an old man in my street with Serbian first and last name but he was completely Magyarized known under his Hungarian name version as Pista, he struggled big time with Serb language, married Hungarian woman (of Slovak origin) and their son is now again feeling as Hungarian although has little actual Hungarian background. But that was politics of Hungary during Austra-Hungarian Empire, they controlled huge territory on which they were not majority. To create stability they had to assimilate as much as they could to expand their nation on territory they controlled by force
why were the Czech speaking lands of Bohemia and Moravia part of the the German Confederation?
Becuase they were part of Holy Roman Empire
@@sahibbhadal but the German Confederation was not a country. And even if it was why would Bohemia and Moravia be a part of it? They don't speak German, they're not even ethnic German, the Czechs are a Slavic people.
@@67nairb they were seen as german
@@sahibbhadal Hitler and his Nazis didn't seem to think that way.
sincerely I don't know but in Austrian empire and in the German holy empire there were Czech members too as regions, kingdoms.
Thanks for stating that Austria Hungary needed the help of Germany even against Serbia, the same happened to Romania except that Romania was never fully occupied
I miss the German Monarchy, Habsburg Monarchy, And China Monarchy.
Apartheid
This video makes me think even more that you crying it's just part of Russia and they basically have no right to exist as an independent nation
British and French CAN’T DRAW MAP!