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207: 31: 90:, published in Hungarian in 1843 and in German in 1844, he proposed not only social reforms but reforms of the state structure of the Empire and its nationality policy. He aimed to replace the centralized empire with a federation of five states: a German state, a state of Bohemia and Moravia, Galicia as a Polish state, the Italian part of Lombardy and Istria, and the state of historical Hungary. 603:"The great origin, language, customs and mentality diversity of different nationalities requires, for the whole Empire of the Habsburgs, a certain state form, which can guarantee that not a single nationality will be threatened, obstructed or offended in its national political life, in its private development, in its national pride, in one word – in its way of feeling and living" 265: 214:
Franz Ferdinand had planned to redraw the map of Austria-Hungary radically, creating a number of ethnically and linguistically dominated semi-autonomous "states" which would all be part of a larger federation renamed the United States of Greater Austria. Under this plan, language and cultural
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identification was encouraged, and the imbalance of power would be corrected. The idea would have encountered heavy opposition from Hungarian politicians, since a direct result of the reform would have been a significant territorial loss for Hungary.
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According to Popovici's plans, the following 15 territories were to become states of the federation after the reform. The majority ethnic group within each territory is also listed.
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The plans for imperial reform of the military chancellery of the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand in the field of tension between trialism and federalism
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The United States of Greater Austria: Political studies for the solution of national questions and constitutional crises in Austria-Hungary
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Die Pläne zur Reichsreform der Militärkanzlei des Thronfolgers Franz Ferdinand im Spannungsfeld von Trialismus und Föderalismus
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to help resolve widespread ethnic and nationalist tensions. It was conceived by a group of scholars surrounding
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Proposed map of the United States of Greater Austria, superimposed on the major ethnic groups of Austria-Hungary
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proper (southern and central part of Bohemia and Moravia in the present-day Czech Republic), ethnic Czech
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The first program for the federalisation of the Habsburg Empire was developed by the Hungarian nobleman
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were created, and various Austro-Hungarian territories were ceded to neighbouring countries at the
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was that it consisted of about a dozen distinctly different ethnic groups, of which only two, the
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territory in northwestern Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic), ethnic German
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Proposed map of the United States of Greater Austria, by Popovici, 1906
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Reform Austria-Hungary

‹See Tfd›
German
federalize
Austria-Hungary
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Romanian
Aurel Popovici
Wesselényi Miklós
Lajos Kossuth
Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867
Austria-Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary
Austrian Empire
Slovaks
Romanians
Austria-Hungary
Germans
Hungarians
Slavic
Bosniaks
Croats
Czechs
Poles
Ruthenians
Serbs
Slovaks
Slovenes
Ukrainians

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