Destruction of this empire alone was worth the WWI.
Didn’t realise Venice is part of the Kaisertum Österreich.
Which economy would it have if it was recreated today? Would it top other European countries?
I’m always amazed at how many fewer people there were pre-20th Century, and how much more evenly they were distributed across the land. Just the urban area of Vienna today has almost 2,000,000 people, and most of the rest of these cities being large in the empire with 75,000 or fewer people. A different world.
I actually expected Prague to be bigger than that.
Thank god this AH bullshit is over.
Thank god this AH bullshit is over.
I wonder if Mestre (the part of Venice Municipality on the mainland) is included in the 180000.
Probably not, since the merger happened in the 20th century, if it’s the case it means that the center of Venice went from almost 200k people to around 50k today.
A 500 year great power that people no longer remembers.
I wonder where they would be in terms of world population rank. In 1800 it was top ten but that also included all the Spanish colonies together with mainland Spain.
Czechs and Austrians have so much common history (which wasn’t always happy, but neither it was always bad) that I am a bit sad our two nations aren’t more aligned and integrated nowadays. It’s great we are all in the EU of course, but I think it would make sense for our post-Habsburg states to pursue something similar to the Visegrad 4 or even Benelux, and thus to be another core region of European integration (but on our terms and at our speed).
TIL that Subotica was called that and was a significant town in an Empire.
Aah, the good old times.
It’s mind-blowing for me that Lviv and Milan were inside of one county, pretty long period of time
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I didn’t know that Krakow was Austrian
Budapest was 2 different cities?
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Destruction of this empire alone was worth the WWI.
Didn’t realise Venice is part of the Kaisertum Österreich.
Which economy would it have if it was recreated today? Would it top other European countries?
I’m always amazed at how many fewer people there were pre-20th Century, and how much more evenly they were distributed across the land. Just the urban area of Vienna today has almost 2,000,000 people, and most of the rest of these cities being large in the empire with 75,000 or fewer people. A different world.
I actually expected Prague to be bigger than that.
Thank god this AH bullshit is over.
Thank god this AH bullshit is over.
I wonder if Mestre (the part of Venice Municipality on the mainland) is included in the 180000.
Probably not, since the merger happened in the 20th century, if it’s the case it means that the center of Venice went from almost 200k people to around 50k today.
A 500 year great power that people no longer remembers.
I wonder where they would be in terms of world population rank. In 1800 it was top ten but that also included all the Spanish colonies together with mainland Spain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_in_1800
Czechs and Austrians have so much common history (which wasn’t always happy, but neither it was always bad) that I am a bit sad our two nations aren’t more aligned and integrated nowadays. It’s great we are all in the EU of course, but I think it would make sense for our post-Habsburg states to pursue something similar to the Visegrad 4 or even Benelux, and thus to be another core region of European integration (but on our terms and at our speed).
TIL that Subotica was called that and was a significant town in an Empire.
Aah, the good old times.
It’s mind-blowing for me that Lviv and Milan were inside of one county, pretty long period of time