Österreich-Ungarn (de) Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia (hu) Austria-Hungary Other names |
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Civil Ensign |
Coat of arms |
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Anthem Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser |
Location of Austria–HungaryLocation of Austria-Hungary in 1913 |
Capital |
Vienna and Budapest[1] (pop: 2,239,000) |
Language(s) |
various: German Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Serbian, Slovene, Rusyn, Italian |
Religion |
Roman Catholic (predominant & official state religion) Tolerated religions of the Empire: Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism, Sunni Islam and others |
Government |
Monarchy |
Emperor of Austria, and King of Hungary[1] |
- 1848–1916 |
Franz Joseph I |
- 1916–1918 |
Karl I |
Historical era |
New Imperialism |
- 1867 Compromise |
29 May, 1867 |
- Czecho-Slovak indep. |
28 October 1918 |
- South Slavs indep. |
29 October 1918 |
- Dissolution |
31 October, 1918 |
- Dissolution treaties¹ |
in 1919 & in 1920 |
Area |
- 1914 |
676,615 km2 (261,243 sq mi) |
Population |
- 1914 est. |
52,800,000 |
Density |
78 /km2 (202.1 /sq mi) |
Currency |
Gulden Krone (from 1892) |
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1) Treaty of Saint-Germain signed 10 September 1919 and the Treaty of Trianon signed 4 June 1920. |
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