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The United States of Greater Austria (n Archduke Franz Ferdinand that never came to pass. This specific proposal was conceived by Aurel Popovici in 1906 . As the twentieth century started to unfold the greatest problem facing the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was that it consisted of eleven distinctly different ethnic groupings of which only two, the Germans and Hungarians (who together accounted for about 44% of the total population) wielded any power or control. The other nine groupings ( Czechs , Poles , Ruthenians , Romanians , Croats , Slovaks , Serbs , Slovenians and Italians ) hardly wielded any power at all. The Dual Monarchy system of Franz Ferdinand's uncle, the Emperor Franz Joseph , had been to split the ancient Austrian Empire into two nations, one Austrian-dominated, the other Hungarian-dominated. However, after various demonstrations, uprisings and acts of Terrorism , it became readily apparent that the notion of two ethnic groups dominating the other nine could not realistically survive ''in perpetuam''. Franz Ferdinand had planned to radically redraw the map of Austria-Hungary creating a number of ethnically and linguistically dominated semi-autonomous "states" , who would all be part of a larger confederation renamed the United States of Greater Austria. Under this plan language and cultural identification was encouraged, and the disproportionate balance of power would theoretically be righted somewhat. The idea was set to encounter heavy opposition from the Hungarian part of the Dual Monarchy, since a direct result of the reform would have been a significant loss of power for the Hungarian nobility. In any event the Archduke was assassinated at Sarajevo in 1914 , which led directly to the outbreak of the First World War , which Austria-Hungary lost. As a consequence, the Empire was dismembered by the victorious Entente powers, and several new states were created, as well as various Austro-Hungarian territories ceded to existing neighbouring countries. PROPOSED STATES FROM AUREL POPOVICI The following territories were supposed to become states after the reform (''note that ''Deutsch'' in this case implied the German Language , not any link to Germany '' per se):
In addition, a number of mostly German-speaking enclaves in eastern Transylvania and elsewhere were to have limited autonomy. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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