Question

" The Habsburg Empire that ruled over Austria - Hungary was a patchwork of many different regions and people. " Justify the statement.

Answer 1

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The Habsburg Empire ruled over Austria-Hungary. It was a patchwork of many different regions and peoples.

• It included the Alpine regions – the Tyrol, Austria and the Sudetenland – as well as Bohemia, where the aristocracy was predominantly German-speaking.
• It also included the Italian-speaking provinces of Lombardy and Venetia.
• In Hungary, half of the population spoke Magyar while the other half spoke a variety of dialects.
• In Galicia, the aristocracy spoke Polish. Besides these three dominant groups, there also lived within the boundaries of the empire, a mass of subject peasant peoples – Bohemians and Slovaks to the north, Slovenes in Carniola, Croats to the south, and Roumans to the east in Transylvania.

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