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Austria-Hungary
(redirected from Austro-Hungarian Monarchy)

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Aus·tri·a-Hun·ga·ry  str--hngg-r)
A former dual monarchy of central Europe consisting of Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, and parts of Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, and Italy. It was formed in 1867 after agitation by Hungarian nationalists within the Austrian empire and lasted until 1918.

Austro-Hun·gari·an str-hng-gâr-n) adj. & n.

Austria-Hungary
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(Historical Terms) (Placename) the Dual Monarchy established in 1867, consisting of what are now Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and parts of Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and Italy. The empire was broken up after World War I
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Noun1.Austria-Hungary - a geographical area in central and eastern EuropeAustria-Hungary - a geographical area in central and eastern Europe; broken into separate countries at the end of World War I
Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
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With World War I and its aftermath, the Trianon Peace Treaty (1920), which erased the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the greatest Hungarian poets (Endre Ady, Mihaly Babits, Dezso Kosztolanyi, Attila Jozsef, and Miklos Radnoti, just to mention a few twentieth-century bards) continued to reinforce Hungary's memorial tradition and struggled for what they felt constituted the soul of the Magyars.
Shagya was first developed about 150 or 200 years ago- from military stud farms of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
Archduke Karl Thomas is, after his father (Crown Prince Otto), first in line to inherit the positions of Head of the House of Hapsburg, claimant to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and principal heir of the Holy Roman Empire.
 
 
 
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