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Central Europe
The region of Central Europe is here defined as those territories that
until 1918 was part of the house of Habsburg's domains. This German dynasty
came into possessions of Austria and Styria in the late thirteenth century
as well as becoming one of Germany's royal dynasties. They managed to
acquire so many territories during the following centuries that they became
masters of "an empire where the sun never sets". Their core region was
however the lands along the Danube listed above. This "Danube monarchy" was
a very heterogeneous empire, which comprised a large number of ethnic
minorities wanting independence from the German dominated Austria (which
from 1867 became the German- and Hungarian dominated Austria-Hungary). The
First World War saw the end of this multiethnic monarchy, which in the
following peace treaties was carved up into several smaller nation states. |
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