Austria-Hungary
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One of Europe's major powers at the time, Austria-Hungary was geographically the second-largest country in Europe, after the Russian Empire, at and the third-most populous (after Russia and the German Empire). The Empire built up the fourth-largest machine-building industry in the world, after the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom. Austria-Hungary also became the world's third-largest manufacturer and exporter of electric home appliances, electric industrial appliances, and power generation apparatus for power plants, after the United States and the German Empire, and it constructed Europe's second-largest railway network, after the German Empire.
With the exception of the territory of the Bosnian Condominium, the Empire of Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary were separate sovereign countries in international law. Thus separate representatives from Austria and Hungary signed peace treaties agreeing to territorial changes, for example the Treaty of Saint-Germain and the Treaty of Trianon. Citizenship and passports were also separate.
At its core was the dual monarchy, which was a real union between Cisleithania, the northern and western parts of the former Austrian Empire, and Transleithania (Kingdom of Hungary). Following the 1867 reforms, the Austrian and Hungarian states were co-equal in power. The two countries conducted unified diplomatic and defence policies. For these purposes, "common" ministries of foreign affairs and defence were maintained under the monarch's direct authority, as was a third finance ministry responsible only for financing the two "common" portfolios. A third component of the union was the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, an autonomous region under the Hungarian crown, which negotiated the Croatian–Hungarian Settlement in 1868. After 1878, Bosnia and Herzegovina came under Austro-Hungarian joint military and civilian rule until it was fully annexed in 1908, provoking the Bosnian crisis.
Austria-Hungary was one of the Central Powers in World War I, which began with an Austro-Hungarian war declaration on the Kingdom of Serbia on 28 July 1914. It was already effectively dissolved by the time the military authorities signed the armistice of Villa Giusti on 3 November 1918. The Kingdom of Hungary and the First Austrian Republic were treated as its successors ''de jure'', whereas the independence of the First Czechoslovak Republic, the Second Polish Republic, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, respectively, and most of the territorial demands of the Kingdom of Romania and the Kingdom of Italy were also recognized by the victorious powers in 1920. Provided by Wikipedia
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Superior document: Die Ministerratsprotokolle Österreichs und der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie 1848 - 1918 Ser. 1, Die Protokolle des Österreichischen Ministerrates 1848 - 1867, Abt. 5, Die Ministerien Erzherzog Rainer und Mensdorff, 5
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Superior document: Die Ministerratsprotokolle Österreichs und der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie 1848 - 1918 Ser. 1, Die Protokolle des Österreichischen Ministerrates 1848 - 1867, Abt. 5, Die Ministerien Erzherzog Rainer und Mensdorff, 9
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Superior document: Die Ministerratsprotokolle Österreichs und der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie 1848 - 1918 Ser. 1, Die Protokolle des Österreichischen Ministerrates 1848 - 1867, Abt. 4, Das Ministerium Rechberg, 1
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Superior document: Die Ministerratsprotokolle Österreichs und der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie 1848 - 1918 Ser. 1, Die Protokolle des Österreichischen Ministerrates 1848 - 1867, Abt. 4, Das Ministerium Rechberg, 2
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Published: 1884
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“...Österreich-Ungarn Ministerium des Äusseren...”
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“...Österreich-Ungarn Ministerium des Äusseren...”
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Superior document: Correspondenzen des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Ministeriums des Äussern auswärtige Angelegenheiten 1
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Published: 1987
Superior document: Die Ministerratsprotokolle Österreichs und der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie 1848 - 1918 Ser. 1, Die Protokolle des Österreichischen Ministerrates 1848 - 1867, Abt. 3, Das Ministerium Buol-Schauenstein, 4
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Published: 1975
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Published: 1979
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Superior document: Die Ministerratsprotokolle Österreichs und der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie 1848 - 1918 Ser. 1, Die Protokolle des Österreichischen Ministerrates 1848 - 1867, Einleitungsband
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