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ninty · 05-11-2003, 11:21 PM

Old is Correct. Austria-Hungary was a huge country with literally hundreds of ethnicities. It basically was 100 countries all garbled up into one. This was partly to blame for the start of WWI.

The Serbs were part of Austria-Hungary, and part of them got their own country and part stayed within Austria-Hungary. Nationalism was at an all time high, and the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand angered Russia, because it felt close ties with them because of their Slavic language and nation. From that you basically get the collapse of Austria-Hungary.

Here’s a map:

[img]http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/images/austhung.gif[/img]

You can see all the different nations today within Austria-Hungary's borders.

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ninty is Offline Major General Posts: 12,683 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Calgary	05-11-2003, 11:21 PM Old is Correct. Austria-Hungary was a huge country with literally hundreds of ethnicities. It basically was 100 countries all garbled up into one. This was partly to blame for the start of WWI. The Serbs were part of Austria-Hungary, and part of them got their own country and part stayed within Austria-Hungary. Nationalism was at an all time high, and the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand angered Russia, because it felt close ties with them because of their Slavic language and nation. From that you basically get the collapse of Austria-Hungary. Here’s a map: [img]http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/images/austhung.gif[/img] You can see all the different nations today within Austria-Hungary's borders.