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education. German Bohemians held that in the closed German-speaking part of Bohemia, only German should be an official language, and objected to the language regulations as being motivated by the Czech "state rights" ideology. When some of the Old Czechs attempted to work out a compromise with the Bohemian Germans in 1890, they were denounced by a younger and more radical intelligentsia. The next year the Old Czechs were soundly defeated by the Young Czechs, ending a period of attempted compromises.
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During the final decade of the empire, obstructionism by both Czechs and Germans rendered parliamentary politics ineffectual, and governments rose and fell with great frequency. The importance of the Young Czech Party waned as Czech politics changed orientation. Political parties advocating democracy
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In Austria, German liberals held political power in parliament from 1867 to 1879. They were determined to maintain German dominance in the Austrian part of the empire. The Czech leaders, subsequently labeled Old Czechs, favored alliance with the conservative and largely Germanized Bohemian nobility
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Despite a series of crises, this dual system survived until 1918. It made permanent the dominant positions of the Hungarians in Hungary and of the Germans in the Austrian parts of the monarchy. Although both halves of the empire had parliamentary systems, in the Austrian half a series of franchise
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in Prague was divided into two separate institutions: one Czech and the other German. These concessions, however, seemed insufficient to a newly developing Czech commercial and industrial bourgeoisie. Intense conflict ensued as Czechs and Germans attempted to control local administration and
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At the local level, the various nationalities gained a great deal of control over provincial and municipal affairs after a series of reforms in local government in the 1860s and 1870s. The monarchy's inability or unwillingness to come to terms with its nationalities problems weakened the
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on an equal footing with German in the Bohemian "outer service" (the language government officials spoke to the public) and law. This law applied to all 216 judicial districts of Bohemia including 77 judicial districts without any significant presence of Czech-speakers. In 1882
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In the first months of World War I, the response of the Czech soldiers and civilians to the war and mobilisation were highly enthusiastic; however later it turned into apathy. The cause of Czech self-government was greatly advanced by the war, during which, in 1917, the
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reforms, culminating in universal manhood suffrage in 1907, allowed the Czechs to play an increasingly active role in the political life of Austria. In the last decades before 1914 a succession of governments included a number of non-German ministers and even one Polish
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While relations between Czechs and Germans worsened in Bohemia, they remained relatively tranquil in Moravia. Although the separate administrative status of Moravia had been abolished in the 18th century, the area was reconstituted as a separate
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The two parts of the empire were united by a common ruler, by a joint foreign policy, and, to some extent, by shared finances. Otherwise,
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were virtually independent states, each having its own parliament, government, administration, and judicial system.
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and advocated the restoration of traditional Bohemian autonomy. In essence, they wanted a reconstituted
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Objecting to an increase of Slavs in the empire, the German liberals opposed the 1878
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in 1849. In Moravia, unlike in Bohemia, a compromise was reached by Karel Emanuel v.
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A Hopeless Struggle: The Austro-Hungarian Army and Total War, 1914-1918
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parliamentary system at a time of escalating international crises.
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Young Czech and Czech Progressive Party era (1891–1914)
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History of Bohemia during the Old Czech era (1878–1891)
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History of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (1648–1867)
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History of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (1526–1648)
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Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Index

Kingdom of Bohemia (1867–1918)
Lands of the Bohemian Crown
German
Czech
Latin
Flag of Bohemian Crown
Coat of arms (drawn by H. G. Ströhl) of Bohemian Crown
Coat of arms
H. G. Ströhl
The Lands of the Bohemian Crown at 1891
Lands of the Bohemian Crown
Crown lands
Cisleithanian
Austria-Hungary
Prague
Czech
German
Latin
Roman Catholicism
Protestantism
Judaism
Jews
Constitutional monarchy
King
Austro-Hungarian Compromise
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Lands of the Bohemian Crown (1648–1867)
First Czechoslovak Republic
Czechoslovak Provisional Government
Austria

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