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Identifier: medivalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediæval and modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ch there were many. It wasno mere figure of speech which characterized the Austro-HungarianMonarchy as a European Tower of Babel. In the AustrianParliament the oath was administered to the members in eightdifferent languages. Now in the eastern half of the monarchy the Magyars, whoformed less than one half of the population of the Hungariankingdom,^ were holding all the non-Magyar races of the kingdom—with the exception of the Slavs of Croatia, who had securedsome measure of self-government — in just such political serfdomas they themselves were subjected to before their emancipationby the events of 1866-1867. Their aim was to denationalize thesepeoples by forcing them to give up their own customs andlanguage and to adopt Magyar customs and the Magyar language,to the end that Hungary should become a compact homogeneousMagyar nation. 1 The census of 1910 gave the total number of inhabitants of Hungary as 20,886,487,of whom only 10,050,575 were returned as being of Hungarian speech.
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§ 648) AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AFTER 1866 569 It was the same in the other half of the monarchy. Therea German minority^ was holding the Czechs in Bohemia and thePoles in Galicia in a state of subjection similar to that in whichthe Magyars were holding the non-Magyar races of Hungary. Now these dependent nationalities claimed that they had asgood a right to self-government as had either the Germans orthe Magyars. The former relations of Ireland to England, andthe resulting agitation on the part of the Irish people for HomeRule, will convey some idea of this situation of things in the dualmonarchy, and of the turbulence created in the state by thestruggles for autonomy of these subject races. In short, theAustro-Hungarian Monarchy had half a dozen Irish problems. It was easy to forecast that, if these contentions did not endin the recognition by the two dominant races of the justice ofthe claims of these dependent peoples, and the conversion of thedual monarchy into a federal union in which t

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