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The Austro-Hungarian Empire

The Austro-Hungarian Empire

Through the 19th century much of Central and South-east Europe was ruled from Vienna, the seat of the Hapsburg Empire, known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867. Its provinces, shown in this map, were inhabited by many different nationalities. After defeat in the First World War, the empire was dissolved. Austria and Hungary separated, and parts of the empire joined Italy, Romania, the restored Poland and the new states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. In the 1990s the component states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia became independent.

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John Wilson, Central and South-eastern Europeans – Immigration history, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/map/967/the-austro-hungarian-empire (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.

Comments

Mark
10 September 2012
This map is very inaccurate, simply I can not believe how misleading it is. It is German-centric and Austro-Hungarian oriented. You did not show Montenegro (Crna Gora) and Serbia, both Serbia and Montenegro were UK allies and helped to liberate Slavic people. Your map is wrong, propagandistic and unfair towards all Slavic and Yugoslav people. Please change this wrong map, show Montenegro and Serbia (fully missing on the map, which is historically wrong)and show how Austrian illegally occupied and annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was predominantly Slavic land. This map shows little and is misleading. Please change that, and be fair. Thank you for your time.
generalforgeron
27 August 2011
This is an inaccurate and anachronistic picture, which can mislead many people. At the time the regions were part of these countries, there were no "core countries" like on the image here.