Word: ausgleich
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...years, Hungary has been a monarchy. Until 1526, when the Turks won the all-important Battle of Mahacs, Hungary had had a national King, but in that year the inheritance was claimed by a Habsburg and Hungary was ruled as a part of the Austrian Empire until the Ausgleich of 1867, which set up the Dual Monarchy and gave the country once more a King of its own in the person of the same Habsburg Emperor of Austria. It was little more than a change of form...
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