Peoples of Austria-Hungary in 1914 from Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd. The empire's population included Germans, Magyars, Romanians, Italians, and Slavs including Croats, Serbians, Ruthenians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, and Slovenes.

Peoples of Austria-Hungary in 1914

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Germans, Magyars, Romanians, Italians, and Slavs including Croats, Serbians, Ruthenians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, and Slovenes.

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Saturday, May 11, 1918

"At the middle of May [1918], Czech patriots and representatives of other Slav national groupings staged ominously anti-Hapsburg demonstrations in Prague, to be recounted farther along. Tactlessly, [Prime Minister Ernst] Seidler poured oil on the flame by announcing that Bohemia would be partitioned for administrative purposes into Czech and German areas; Czech patriotic sentiment firmly insisted upon a unified Bohemia in which Czechs would profit from a majority position. Yet it was believed by the moderate Illas Naroda that 'the entire Czech opinion contemplates a Czech nation within the framework of Austria, under the Hapsburg scepter.'"

Quotation Context

Baron Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg served as Austro-Hungarian Prime Minister in 1917 and 1918. In the face of increasing demands for an independent Czech or Czechoslovak state, Seidler more than once offered his resignation to Kaiser Karl, who finally accepted it on July 22, 1918.

Source

The Passing of the Hapsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918 2 Volumes by Arthur James May, Vol. 2, pp. 661-662, copyright © 1966 by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, publication date: 1966

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