What If The Austro-Hungarian Empire Reunited Today?
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Which other empires would you like to see in videos like this?
Can you do a "What if the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth reunited today?" please! thank you!
I would like to see the Empire of Japan reunited
Iconic intro fr
Do the Sikh Empire plz!
kingdome of swabia
I did the maths. The population of this empire today, with the data of the regions of all the countries in it, would be around 75 million people living in the empire.
It would be the 18th most populated country worldwide and the 4th in Europe.
4th? So 1. Russia 2. Germany and who is third? I guess you're counting Turkey, which would be 2nd and ahead of Germany.
@@ironshrek88 1 russia 2 Germany 3 Turkey 4 Austria Hungary
Wow there's a lot of people in those other territories then!
Now we just have to calculate the total GDP by additioning each citizen's gdp according to the gdp per capita of their respective areas. Any volonteer ?
@@General.Knowledge yeah there are about 7 million in Transylvania alone big money province
Next Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
OMG YES!!!!!!!!
Yes pls
How about the German/Russian Empire for instance?
That will be a good one
@Moritz der Echte we all know how the second one ends
When all 8 of my great grandparents immigrated to the US in the early 1900s, they are all registered as having come from Austria, though none were Austrian.
Your last name "Labus" is the same as a famous Czech actor Jiří Lábus. Was any of your ancestors from Czechia?
@@slouberiee I had seen Jiri Labus in my Google research. Thanks for sharing as well. My paternal family is Polish, and they come from the northern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains southeast of Krakow from a village name Slopnice. My Mother's family is Lemko/Ukrainian from current far southeastern Poland next to the border with Slovakia, and Croatian from the village of Perusic. I'm half west Slav, a quarter east Slav, and a quarter south Slav.
Sorry that the my keyboard doesn't let me use the proper letters within the alphabets.
Possible they were part of Empire than.It is known that all romanians born in the empire teritory could easily become hungarian or austrian citizens
@@georgeborcean8564 They would not become citizens, they were citizens of the realm! 🙂
Same with two of my 2nd great-grandparents, they were listed as from Austria but they were buried in Pennsylvania with Czech writing on their tombstones.
Her: I bet she is thinking of other girls!
Him: When will the Austro-Hungarian empire ever reunite!? I want that empire back!
i didn't know she was lesbian
@@lordsacrifice Maybe Knight is Hungarian; this language does't have he/she, so the speakers tend to mix it up when speaking foreign languages.
@@mllesamedi84 Actually, in Hungarian we don't make difference between genders while we speak about someone, because in Hungarian we haven't got the reason for that. The personal pronoun hasn't got the role to define the gender of a person. We already know the gender of a person, if we already know the person, but we have different forms of words for each gender, so that's why we don't need to say it with the personal pronoun. Maybe it sounds weird idk, but why we should say each time the gender if we know?
@@blasius7704 Yes, I noticed that, talking with Hungarians (but for speakers of most european languages it feels strange, bc the pronouns are very important).
Actually, that is the same with japanese and chinese people, due to the different structures of the languages.
Sadly I don't understand Hungarian, but I love the sound!
@@mllesamedi84 I can't decide that is wrong or not, that the Hungarian language isn't using the personal pronoun to specify the gender. As a native Hungarian speaker, I feel useless to define it every time as I said before (or maybe I didn't say why, but I explained that we instantly know the gender from words, expect personal pronouns), may this language have different advantages and disadvantages in contrast with the most European language. Like, can be a positive thing that we have a lot of synonyms with the same meaning, so we can choose from them, and we can decide with them how we want to formulate a sentence. We can choose softer and more beautiful words if we want to say something kinder. That's a thing that have some languages, but in English we can't do this in this way I think. May it has more words, but fewer synonyms.
As an Austrian, this topic is very interesting for me. Thank you! =D
You're welcome!
Stai sereno amico austriaco che il tuo impero e' finito da un pezzo....stammi bene
@@somaszanto6456 european union : am i a joke to you
@@kosovoisserbia8937 definitely not the same as being one country but ok
@@somaszanto6456 not same but you don't have borders right
As a resident of the former Austro-Hugarian Empire, I would be more than happy to join, or to rejoin.
No.
If I may ask, why?
Same 😌
Amen to that brother. Would love this as a historian from Croatia.
as czech, never
I am from Croatia that was part of Austria-Hungary and I want Austria-Hungary united again because living in Austria-Hungary was better (for example railroads were built in Austria-Hungary, many buildings were built and in shipyards in Croatia warships and boats were built and many cities grew in Austria-Hungary and Rijeka and Trieste became traffic hubs).
Great Hungary also would be cool in a federal country with the other nationalities.
You mean Fiume?
@@leventetombacz6083 Fiume is Rijeka in italian
Wasn't Pula or however you spell the name of that city/town also pretty important? All I heard it had a bigger economy & population 100 years ago.
@@1lik3Fir33mbl3m Yes, they were building ships in Pula.
Btw a small part of todays Czechia was NOT part of Austria-Hungary. It used to be part of Imperial Germany and was given to Czechoslovakia after WW1. It was called "Hultschiner Ländchen".
yeah, we fought over it with Poland after that
@@Luck9nN If you are Czech, then no. Your country fought a war about Teschen-Silesia and other small border regions. The Hultschiner Ländchen was not part of the war.
so there would be two czechia :o
@@saulenfischbearn7470 really? I thought it was both Cieszyn and Hulczyn
I didn't know that! Really interesting
At the start of your you said that the Habsburg monarchy has roots in the Holy Roman Empire, but thats not really the case. Habsburgs were emperors of HRE, but HRE as such doesnt have much to do with the creation of the Habsburg Monarchy. The Habsburg Monarchy was a conglomeration of feudal realms under the rule of the Austrian Habsburgs, its came into existance in 1526, when Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, was killed at the battle of Mohacs, fighting against the Turks. With him dead, the Jagiellonian dynasty in Hungary and Bohemia had no male heirs, and the succesion passed to Ferdinand von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria, who was married to the sister of Louis II. With that, the Austrian Habsburgs held Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, which became their core possessions, amongst others, altogether informally known as the Habsburg Monarchy. In 1804 they were formally unified as the Austrian Empire, which reconstituted itself as Austria-Hungary in 1867.
Alter Fritz!
The Habsburgs existed before the battle of Mohacs, albeit in a lesser preeminence. They rose to fame by taking part in HRE politics.
@@Licht.von.Stein. The Habsburgs have been ruling in Austria since the 13th century, and they already had few of their members as the rulers of HRE, by 1526. However the position of the Emperor of HRE, was largely symbolical already, by this point. And Austria on its own was only a minor power, more so than either Bohemia or Hungary on their own. Its was only after 1526, with the thrones of Hungary and Bohemia, that they would become a major European power.
You forgot Croatia :(
Actually, the 1st Habsburg to ascend the throne as emperor was Frederik III. in 1452
This one is especially important because during the civil war between him and his brother at the start of his reign, Slovenes sided with him. As a reward for their loyalty, he elevated Carniola into a duchy by adding the imperial crown to the Carniolan eagle.
It makes a lot of sense due to the cultural community of these lands. Its economy was booming, in spite of criticism it had a quite balanced internal policy--all languages were official, army battalions were formed according to the native tongues of the soldiers, the banknote had an inscription in 12 languages, the whole empire was very liberal--the only country in Europe where Jews could become army officers of any ranking. Some minor border adjustments would be natural, but 80% of its population is still proud that once was part of a great empire and of an economic as well as of military power. There was a distinctive work ethic, people could travel, settle freely wherever they wanted, there was a very good administration, education, railway network with precise statistics, a very cohesive, smoothly running economy and the intelligentsia spoke at least 2 but rather 3 foreign languages---so something the EU is only dreaming of...
That’s actually what is never told about AH, because it doesn’t fit into the ideal world of social media leftists, who interestingly enough think the EU is cool but AH isn’t…
AH was kind of a North Balkan Union, in form of a dual monarchy.
That's true. My region really benefited from Austrian rule. After the Empire fell apart it's been going badly in here. Polish and Czech nationalists split the region, destroyed it economically and culturally. During the Empire's rule, Poles, Czechs, Germans, Jews and Silesians lived with each other relatively peacfully here. Now, there are no Jews and Germans for obvious reasons, Polish and Czech people have fought over my part of Silesia, and we Silesians are denied our historical and cultural rights to our own state, the recognition of our nationality and our language. It's true we weren't granted that in the Empire too, but we weren't discriminated against and we probably would have achieved recognition very long ago if we have stayed in the Empire
@@ekstraworszt6792 Austrian here, i wonder how much of the drama in the balkans is mainly or soley due to yall being occupied by soviets and the well known love of russia pushing their money on all our politicians to this day for their personal benefit, given it is now no secret anymore that russia always wanted to go back to a reunion of the udssr, it is quite logical to keep the split off territories in a rather unstable state to make this goal easier to achieve.
hell most of western europe only realized at the start of this invasion how much influence russia has on most of our rightwingparties, its simply logical that this would be even worse in eastern europe right?
most i think dont even know that we wouldve ended up in soviet slavery too if not for the neutrality that allowed us to escape it and were clearly doing better than most of the balkans because of that, given we went from the poorest to the 14th wealthiest in terms of gdp per capita within only 3 generations.
i hope most of us in europe agree that the possibility of getting rid of russian influence for good thanks to ukraine could lead to an exciting future and closer, more stabilized relationships with you all, im tired of the drama, we all are, we could equal america, china and india no problem if stabelized lets be real.
@@ChrisKAy91 Western Balkans were never occupied by Soviets. Tito rebelled against them almost immediately after the war - because he could, there were no Soviet troops on Yugoslavian soil.
The ethnic or even cultural tensions there have much longer tradition. Pre-WW2 Yugoslavia was a powder keg in itself, with constant bickering between Serbs, Croats and others. Earlier - the Assassination was a Balkan job.
I would attribute this to the Ottoman occupation and influence. In the Western civilization everything is focused on the individual. The East is more clan oriented.
Equaling USA - impossible with a centralized EU. The German mentality is completely different from the others. The byzantine EU laws (copy pasted from German legislation) killed the industry everywhere outside Germany - France, UK, the European South. The Eastern Europe is currently in the middle income trap. The only way out of this is decentralization and diversification of laws (and currency areas), keeping only the single market without tariffs.
I am Hungarian and I think reunion would be a great idea
Austria is still a rich and prosperous country so I bet other countries that were occupied by Austria regretted leaving.
I am Czech and I also like this idea. :)
I disagree, on the statement that the Empire would not have survived if ww1 didn't happen, as one of the reasons the assasination took place and happened is because, all of the next monarchs who were to take the throne had a plan to federelise the Empire, now that would have been very good for Austria-Hungary, but not so for Serbia, which wouldn't have been then able to spread its idea of greater Serbia, slavic Oppression...
But now maybe we can
Next you should do what if the Kalmar Union (nordic countries) reunited today
I would like it 😉 greetings from Germany 🇩🇪❤️🇩🇰 stay safe 🍀
It's on the list!
@@General.Knowledge
what kind of territory of croatia is that?
0:44
dislike.
We'd have around 27 million people and the economy of ~ $1,73 trillion.
That would put us ahead of Spain as the 5th largest European economy and slightly ahead of of Russia as the 11th largest economy in the world.
Sant
Can we Australians join too, please? We make good beer and have all the kangaroos you will ever need. The might Austro-'Strayan-Hungarian Holy Empire will never be defeated.
Might as well. Many English speakers confuse Australia and Austria anyway. I saw a tee shirt in Austria that said "There are no kangaroos in Austria".
You are in the empire, but we do not grant you the rank of state
@@kyriljordanov2086 I'm Austrian and I can confirm. Most souvenir shops sell T-shirts, mugs, lighters, ashtrays, labels/plates etc. with the famous "Austria No Kangaroos" logo.
sör? hell yeah :D
This is the best proposal of all this video. Hahaha! 🤣
*Austria-Hungary reunites*
Italy: *Peace was never an opinion*
Whoa! Fantastic video, General! Thanks!
And one of my favorite topics to talk about, because I used to live in Slovakia for 2+ years between 2016 and 2018 and have spent a lot of time in its neighbouring countries and some small cities that have a very fascinating history!
I won't speak on behalf of anyone, but when I had lived there I did notice very subtle regional changes, not only in terms of religion and in its practice, but also I did understand most of the reasons why the Dual Monarchy had dissolved.
Generally speaking, Czechs and Slovaks get each other extremely well, but even they have their differences and that's why they split up in 1993.
Slovakia is more religious and conservative and is more similar to Hungary in some aspects in terms of culture and cuisine, while the Czech Republic is closer to the Germans and Austrians in terms of mentality and approach towards their everyday life.
Many of these countries have started to get along better than they used to by way of Schengen and the EU's overall common politics have contributed largely for these countries to have better functioning economies and public services in comparison to... say, the Balkans.
The non-EU member states (Bosnia and Ukraine) would largely benefit from such a reunion.
Unfortunately, nowadays, the EU in its current state is heading towards the problems that the Habsburgs used to face back when the Austro-Hungarian Empire was a thing.
There is a lot that history can teach us and so, I hope that the politicians in Brussels and Strasbourg have learned their lessons and do more to improve the relationships between the member-states even further as we all benefit from a stronger and better functioning European Union!
My family came from Austria-Hungary and I lived with my Czech wife in Czechia for a few years. I don't think most Czechs and Slovaks would want to see the empire return. There's interest there about it from a historical prospective, but no movement to bring it back. I knew many Czechs and Slovaks who regret the breakup of Czecoslovakia but no one who really regretted the breakup of the Austrian empire.
Technically speaking, Czechia does not have entirity of its territory within the former borders of Austria-Hungary. After WW1, Czechoslovakia had received a small piece of German territory, which did not belong to Austria-Hungary. So, if you were to recreate AH in its 1914 borders, the Czech republic would still remain on the map, tho only at about twice the size of Liechtenstein.
@@takstesimelizvolitnekohojineho i think he's talking about Hultschiner Ländche
@@arthurfilipe7380 ah, sorry
Damn I get to these videos way to fast see you guys in a few days again
First, it is interesting that you are not the first person to make such video. Even though out of all of Hungary's neighbors, the ties with Austria is probably the strongest for Hungarians, the idea of the Dual Empire is out of the question presently. Probably for the same reason that caused the revolution in 1848.
But, one thing has to be mentioned.. different forms of art and architecture flourished during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, that could not be matched any time later.. A few years ago the government has started a program to rebuild Buda Castle and its surrounding to its former glory as were in the days of the empire... If you think Budapest is a beautiful city, lot of credits are due to the influence which it had during the Austro-Hungarian empire.
And before it isn’t have a glory of A-H monarchy ?
Given how this decade has gone so far, its only a matter of time before WW3 starts.
My bet is 2024
It's not Russia we need to worry about so much, while significant has severe short comings and less money to spend, China is a rising threat and they have more money to spend than Russia, they're upgrading their military and have hostile intentions especially South China Sea.
@@colinvespa4709 chill theyre no more hostile than usa,russia.
talk shit about china when they actually invade someone.
@@QWERTY-gp8fd They already have, Tibet.
They occupying islands in violation of recognised sea borders and turning then into island forts, putting them in conflict with Vietnam, Phillipines, Japan etc
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Sea
@@colinvespa4709 its not invasion. just small dispute. talk about that when it actually becomes big conflict.
tibet was not independent. nobody recognized its independence and it didnt even tried to make itself truly independent.
weak states can become free from china.
mongolia is prime example.
i recognize hawaii as independent but does that make hawaii independent?
china is least evil of the big 3.
usa invaded afghanistan,iraq
russia invaded ukraine,georgia.
china does not invade its weak neighbours like mongolia for land grab.
sure they have shit treatment against minority but so do americans,russians.
i take chinese debt trap over invasion from russia or usa.
Good work! Great video.
As a Silesian I guarantee that some Silesians from the Teschen region (the region of Silesia which was once part of this Empire) wouldn't mind bringing the Empire back together, we have good memories of these times
I am Austrian and I would like that to happen, because together we would be much stronger in every aspect, but it would be very important to keep neutrality for the whole country and not to join Nato. Those countries which are already in the Nato, just joined it because they are so small.
I too would like Trieste to become part of Austria again. Until 1918 Trieste was a cosmopolitan city and avant-garde compared to other European cities. Unfortunately today, Trieste under Italy has become a provincial town, degraded and forgotten
Neutrality is overrated.
im hungarian, aaaand i would be surprised about that austria really wanted to remake the monarchy lol
but i dont know if i would like it or not
@@benideguz I dont know what the majority would think about that - I just can speak for myself :) and I would love to reunite. Please tell me one disadvantage
As a Slovenian, I would prefer if you'd step away from the keyboard
We need you and oversimplified to collaborate! Plus you deserve the extra attention I feel like you should have way more than 370K subscribers.
Oh my...what a funny coincidence.....2 days ago I was searching videos about this theme a you upload this video 22h ago? Nice
1. A part of Montenegro was part of AH empire (costal area)
2. Wtf is State of Slovens
Serbs and Croats doing on Bosnia map at 1:39 This blue area was officialy called Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Btw great video 😉
Was that Perast or Kotor, Montenegro? I was in both places recently and I think I was told that.
I am Hungarian and I would like it to happen so flippin much. And I believe every sensible man would agree to let the Austrians govern this empire. Just look at the numbers, they already make about half of the total GDP. Let them handle things.
I am just unsure if they would like to deal with the corruption that is going on here, but maybe they would be able to do some magic.
To be fair, Austria's GDP is so high compared to the rest because it was the only part that was lucky enough to get to the Western side of the iron curtain while the rest was destroyed, plundered and economically strangled by the USSR for 40 years.
@@19Szabolcs91 and probably that's why it's politicians are quite different from ours. And that is why, they should lead this empire.
@@19Szabolcs91 Yeah, the political change was rather just a gangster change. All of our party leaders are just regular thugs.
48 és 56 hősei forognak a sírjaikban tőletek.
@@moreketamineimustfind5916 forogjanak csak, ha attól jobb nekik. De "hősi emlékekből" még egyszer sem sikerült vacsorát főznöm.
Would be cool if the Holy Roman Empire video is made
I wanna see how chaotic it will be
Interesting fact: Austria still has mandatory militaryservice with optional social service, 1 out in 9 austrians served the military for 6-12 months, totalling 1mio.
The map that you choose at the beginning of the video is inaccurate because it shows istrian peninsula as italian when in fact it's part of Slovenia and Croatia only a small area around city of Trieste is Italian.
Not only this, the map shows a lot of germans in Transilvania and Banat, and they are no more in this area, also the Hungarians in Transilvania and Banat are no more than 20 %...
@@19712000remus That is an old map based on the 1911 census...
@@caiawlodarski5339according to Elek Fényes in Transilvania 1830-1840 was 62,3% Romanians and 23,3 Hungarians...
at the time it was legit italian (at least the rueling people were), since middle ages
@@russko118 It was inhabited by Croatian majority.
Slovak coat of arms is based on the one of the hungarian empire (cross on 3 hills representing Tatra, Fatra and Matra). It was "slavic-ised" by changing hill colors to blue and they still represent the same hills, although Matra is in Hugary. So technically one does not have to include the slovak one, simply revert back.
@@zsombornagy4787 "stolen", as if Hungary did not divide west and south slavic nations.. Check the explanation of why Slovakia used the symbol. You see, it is a matter of perspective.
What I like to say is that I think it's nice to see that slovaks did not replace it completely and actually showed they share a lot with Austria Hungary ;-)
@@zsombornagy4787 Well, keep being proud hungarian. This is the official interpretation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Slovakia
It is important to realize that nationality and citizenship definitions were not clear at the time (started somewhere around 19th century). This is usually the starting point of misunderstanding. It is actually hard to say what was slovak and what was hungarian, or even austrian. It is one thing to have a ruler that is hungarian, another who was living on his land. So by saying the coat of arms was hungarian is like saying it never represented Felvidek people (mostly slavic, slovak nationality did not exist). I hope you understand that part of the history is as much slovak as it is czech, polish or hungarian. And I stand my point that taking Arpad's house symbol as coat of arms is nicely showing the common history and evolution. One can also say that slovak flag stole hungarian coat of arms and russian base flag. Which would be utter stupid :-) It's basically the same thing as czech and luxemburg coat of arms.
@@zsombornagy4787 yes it was part of hungarian empire but felvidek/upperland was occupied by slovaks.
Slovakia in 10 century was part of hungarian kingdom after great moraria split. nitra was seats for many years in hungarian empire and hungarians took many rules from slavs (slovaks). check the history books to find out where slovaks was in that time as many mentoined them. So start to read about history and stop lie about "great hungarian bullshits"
Love the vids dude, but I have a question I’ve been wondering for a while: I can’t place your accent. Where are you from?
Ik his accents in this weird grey zone but he’s actually Portuguese
He's from Portugal
Portugal!
My school took one of your videos turned off the audio and did a voice over, kind of ironic the presentation was about creativity.
Grat, jó videó...
Congratulations, this is a good video...
Lol that Looney Tunes reference 👍
yup, its weird and random, lol. Usually only that bell sound
I swear I've seen this exact topic covered on TH-cam over a dozen times the last few years
yeah, interesting how someone keeps issuing feelers and adapting with feedback. this federation twist is new, i believe.
history nerds in general tend to like Austria-Hungary, so it's not surprising.
@4:27 south-east of Poland was part of Austro-Hungary. The circled part was occupied by Prussia and later the German Empire.
Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser! 🇦🇹🇭🇺
🇳🇱❤️🇭🇺🇦🇹
Me, a Serbian: allow me to introduce myself
take it as a joke lol
@@gamps2771 you were easy clapped by Austria hungary but only because of the allies you survived
@@wanneerde8854 Lmao thats y A-H took the first official L in WW1 directly against Serbia (battle of Cer). Its a fact that Serbia has upset AustriaHungary way more then expected. But as I said in my cmt above, take it as a joke buddy
@@gamps2771 It was only because of the bad military staff. But the war against Serbia was a big mistake.
Name: Austria-Hungary
Greatest nationality: Czech
To souhlasí
Not exactly.. there are hungarians in Slovakia, Transylvania.. so the Hungarians would be..
Nah, Czechs were the third. Germans and Hungarians were still the two largest ethnic groups, however even together they only made up less than 45% of the population.
and these comments are the reason this wouldn't be possible, as it would be inhabited by a bunch of nationalistic idiots.
Good job
Britain: how many times do we have to teach you old man?
Love the intro lol
The only thing that can knockout corruption in Bosnia
Austro-Hungarian Empire (867~918)
*According to General Knowledge
1867-1918
the part of territorry of poland that is in question is around 5-7 mil
city of cracow parts of upper silesia are densly populated
Do a video about Achaemenian empire, or Sasanian empire, I really wanna see something like that done by you.
I would like to see
1) poland-lithuania
2)kalamar union
3) Byzantine empire
One of these
We want a general knowledge and oversimplified collaboration
generalsimplified ?
Sounds good to me
I wish!
The reason Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians are shown as one on the map is they all speak dialects of the same language. Serb Croatian, so the Imperial government would not distinguish.
In KuK days there was no such thing as Serbocroatian, that was invented in Tito's Yugoslavia.
And it died with it. Croatian is not a dialect of Serbian or vice versa.
@@Harahvaiti Nonbiased linguist beg to differ. It is a fact that all 3 are easily mutually intelligible. At least they were in past I am not sure whether this has been altered by the post Yugoslav governments. But if it has then it was easily mutually intelligible back then so it would make since for them to label it as such.
Besides even if you except the lie that they have always been different language then way was it so easy for Yugoslavia to establish a single language. You simply can't do that unless languages are very closely linked and therefore easily mutually intelligible. The for dialects of the same language.
@@lordkenten4136 spare me of those "non-biased" linguists whose only defense of their insisting on SerboCroatian being a real thing is - Croatian/Serbian/Bosnian nationalists are against us.
Mutual intelligibility is one thing, being one and the same language is another.
One can say the same for Czech and Slovak or Scandinavian languages, they also have high percent of mutual intelligibility.
Yugoslavia tried to establish one and the same language, but it failed, there never was a common standard for entire Yugoslavia, "Serbocroatian" or "Croatoserbian" was an officialy imposed name of language that never truly existed. In Croatia then same as now, language was used with Croatian grammar and vocabulary and in Serbia with Serbian grammar and vocabulary. And vocabulary and grammar of standard Croatian and standard Serbian have significant differences. Standard languages, not dialects. If we add Croat dialects and Serb dialecs into the story, then difference is even greater.
So to declare two languages as "dialects of one and the same language" is not only ignorant but also insulting.
If two men are married with nearly identical twins, that still does not mean they have the same wife, does it? Only that they are sisters and they have same mother.
Same goes for Croat and Serbian language.
Besides, Croatian is internationally recognized language (official language of the EU as well), Serbian is also standalone language now. What ever product you buy in our part of the world - you'll find its description separately in Croatian and in Serbian.
Linguists can have their fun and live in the past. Nobody cares.
@@bedijoci had the idea of trial monarchy which was to grant equality to Croatia and other Slavic nations of Habsburg Empire prevailed - history might have taken another path
@@bedijoci Well yes that is true to some extent but what is also true is they speak the same language so it is natural to show that such.
Here is a proud Dutch Slovak watching!
Too bad that Austria-Hungary never reformed to get everyone on the same level - and when it did, it was already too late. Nationalism had won. A cautionary tale for the EU! Hope Britain is the only country to leave, otherwise, we might have a video in 30 years "What if the EU reunited today?"
a lot of people and of peoples were ok with being in the Empire if it were the Austrian Empire not the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Slovaks, Romanians and Serbs wanted to be just as autonomous inside the Empire as the Hungarians in areas where they were the majority , but the Hungarians had a different idea for them: minorities inside the kingdom of Hungary.
@@lucianboar3489 that’s 100% true, most Romanians in Transylvania just wanted more autonomy within the empire not joining Romania, they got the recognition at the end by Austrians but it was too late, also Hungary had imperialistic agenda which only made things worse.
You should do “what if the Middle East United to one country today”
The U.S. would finally be able to carpet bomb the whole region xD
pretty much the same as when you reach critical mass of uranium..
It would go boom in about 2 years.
explode
@@scan4707 it happened before, ever heard of the ummayds? the Rashidate Caliphate, the Abbasids
I am actually confused. at 1:34, you show a picture of the Austro-Hungarian empire but show Italy having Trieste, which has pre-WWII border. I find this okay until I look at Poland, who has Post WWII borders. I think you used an incorrect map on that slide.
You get a like for using one of my favorite marches.
As an Austrian I don't want that to Happen because I fear that we'd Fall Further behind Germany in Per Capita GDP and I want to feel at least as good as the worse Germans Up north
Suggestions for next vids:
1) What if there wasn't Munich agreement in 1938 (West countries gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler in return to not invade them)
2) What if Russian Czar wasn't murdered
Interesting that at 11:16 the UK is noted as "recently departed" making this is a recent film.
I wonder if an alternative history film could be shown about what if "The EU breaks up"
Looking at the financial state of Italy, the most elegant solution would be BUYING Trieste.
You forgot a small city of china
Great video. Could You do one about Polish Lithuanian Commonweath reuniting today?
Can you do a "What if the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth reunited today?" please! thank you!
No, *even better* : Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth
UP
I was going to say the same thing.
2:40 France is actually bigger than Austria-Hungary thanks to it’s 90,000km2 of overseas departments and territories. Bringing it up to 643,000km2
He counted European france only
0:42 Italian Istria.
That does put a smile on my face.
Great video uwu
3:08 if they chose a singular capital, i would say it would be either budapest or bratislava, because of how central they are in the empire
Interesting concept. Never going to happen, but interesting. I really liked your flag though! You put a lot of thought into it.
Could you please share the source of that 7:20 map?
Just a small correction but there never was an Austrian kingdom. It was the archduchy of austria which was essentially of the same rank and prestige as a prince electorate in the HRE but not an outright kingdom.
There are so many mistakes. Flag, nationality, Austro-hungarian prince, emperor etc.
I think the government would be similar to what the US has with each state being self governing but overlooked by a federal government, with an imperial monarchy having the same power as the British monarchy. Just there for the lols. So the new emperor could be Karl Von Hapsburg (a descendant of the habsburgs). Idk, could be fun to see how this would play out, maybe for the benefits it'd be cool
O que achas de um vídeo sobre um mundo sem fronteiras ou unificado? Como se organizaria? Seriam respeitadas as identidades regionais? Que língua falaria? Moedas? Onde seria a capital da terra? Seria interessante analisar como as organizações mundiais (como a ONU, OMS, FMI) seriam as bases para este mundo unificado.
Seria terrível ou perfeito, depende
Thank you for this nice video, very detailed. After the ancient Roman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian is my favorite (we are not few in Italy in thinking so) for the culture, art, civilization and the social welfare it embodied. It would have been wonderful if Emperor Franz Joseph had unified Italy himself, within the Empire, obviously also granting us Italians (and other nationalities) the same rights as Austrians and Hungarians have, instead of rejecting every request coming from the Italians of the empire. I'd like to know what you think of the idea of reuniting the Empire with all of Italy inside, this time all of it, not just the North, in a federal form and guaranteeing all nationalities the same rights and duties.I would also be curious to know the opinion of the Austrians, but I fear that they still consider us italians responsible for the end in 1918 (which is not entirely true).
I'm all for it
The thought of the Austro-Hungarian capital being in Sarajevo is both ironic and cursed…
I don't think it would be too hard to look up those regions. Regions have population census too
That's not an empire, but I would like to see "What if Asia Minor disaster never happened"
I used that map in a school presentation 4:50
Don't do that. Don't give me hope
Byzantium next pls
Can you do a video talking about the war of ultramar ( war between Portugal and its African colonies) ? Pls🇵🇹♥️
0:49 bro forgot Italy doesn't have Istria anymore
Nice video. Please, do the same for Deutsches Reich in 1914, if they got back all territory they had back then, today.
Its a very interesting question youve approached here. It would also be interesting to see who befriends who when this EU bs collapses !
Next can we get one on the Swedish empire and then Denmark-Norway.
Best things for lot of people on economy side.
I hereby volunteer for the position of "emporer".
objection on the map of 'importance granted to religion' in the case of Kosovo this data is not accurate. I myself as a katholic Kosovar can assure you that religion doesnt hold much importance in Kosovo, i would give it the same color as Albania.
great video!
i think the flag would be the flag of the old austrian empire as the main flag but not to represent just austria, to represent the whole nation state, which would probably not be called austria hungary, but would be called something more like the central european federation, or the federation of the danube, or something else like that. also the subdivisions would likely be that of the 1914 crownlands, but with greater autonomy for the slovakians, transylavanians, and vojvodinians. and the bosnian serbs would also probably be autonomous on a higher level, similar to what they have already. also serbia is gonna be piiiiissed
Where u from?
What if the Nordic countries united
"Kalmar Union"
this is making me hungry
For Austria Hungary to form I think it would be unrealistic for them to get all of these other countries to join because they would have a different name yeah sure they were all a part of it when it first formed and all the later expanded nations like they only later expanded to them so Austria-Hungary I think it would actually only be the size of modern Austria and modern Hungary unless they conquered which is unrealistic with modern laws
What if Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth reunited today?
Can you do pls what if the Macedon Empire reunited today🇬🇷?
Yeah ❤
@George Washington Sparta hated Macedonia lol
@@xanshen9011 dude honestly ancient greece was a free for all
3:14 why not all? Like United States of Austria-Hungary. Viena, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, Krakow, Lwow, Zagreb, Ljubljana (I dunno for Romanian and Serbian) Also South Tirol will be for Austria and Triest will be for Slovenia.
Hope M. Laser History sees this he is from Slovakia
Is he? It's surprising, because he isn't soo negatively biased about hungarians, like many other slovaks. Like Benes decrees still being valid etc.
Well, Emperor Karl in his proclamation from 16th October 1918 said about the possibility of reunification of Polish areas with Poland, so i do not believe that Austria-Hungary would have the same borders.
Make a video on Karkota Empire.
A fascinating if highly unlikely concept. What I find most intriguing would be should it reform and take on the neutrality of Austria.