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Also Known As Österreichisch-Ungarisches Reich • Doppelmonarchie • Österreich-Ungarn • Dual Monarchy • Österreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie • Austro-Hungarian Empire • Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Date 1867 - 1918

Did You Know?

  • Germany was a longtime ally of Austria-Hungary.
  • Austria-Hungary was the first country to declare war in WWI. It fought as one of the Central Powers.
  • In 1908 Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was unpopular among the Serbs living there.

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World War I
World War I
“Big Four”
Treaty of Versailles
Cadorna, Luigi
Battle of Caporetto
Battles of the Isonzo
The Battle of Vittorio Veneto
Battle of Vittorio Veneto
Bosnian crisis of 1908
Aleksey A. Brusilov
Brusilov Offensive
Triple Alliance
Algeciras Conference
Pig War
Dreikaiserbund
Congress of Berlin
Congress of Berlin
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Austro-German Alliance
Treaty of Bucharest

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Austria
Austria
Hungary
Hungary

Key People

Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Franz Joseph
Franz Joseph
emperor of Austria-Hungary
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
German-language writer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Tomáš Masaryk
Tomáš Masaryk
president of Czechoslovakia
Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski
Polish-born British anthropologist
Friedrich Ferdinand, Graf von Beust.
Friedrich Ferdinand, Graf von Beust
prime minister of Austria
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg
Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Este
Austrian archduke
Edvard Beneš
Edvard Beneš
president of Czechoslovakia
Pitfall
André De Toth
Hungarian-born director
Schwimmer, Rosika
Rosika Schwimmer
Hungarian feminist and pacifist
Ady
Endre Ady
Hungarian poet
Augusta Maywood
American ballerina
Erich Honecker, Gustav Husak, and Walter Ulbricht
Gustav Husak
Slovak statesman
Brassaï
French artist
Stefan Banach
Polish mathematician
S.Y. Agnon
S.Y. Agnon
Israeli author
Gyula, Count Andrássy.
Gyula, Count Andrássy
prime minister of Hungary
Ernst H. Gombrich
British art historian