Word: austro-hungarian
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...Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe," declared Bis marck. Between periods of self-rule, Bohemia fell to the Avars in the 5th century, later to the German emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and finally to the Habsburgs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs and the Slovaks were perhaps the first people in Central Europe to develop a sort of natural identity, and their first weapon was religion. They won from Rome the right to conduct their religious services in Slavonic in the 9th century. Partially as a result of this independence, the Czechs started...
...years, up to 1918, his country was dominated by a Western power, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs' only hope was that a strong nation of similar Slavic culture, sensitive to Slav desires for self-determination, would help her drive for independence. The Russian Bolsheviks during the crucial years of World War I, became her champion...
...fortyish exile returned from Palestine after World War I to the East European town of his youth. Moving into a small hotel, the wanderer becomes "that man who was a guest for the night and stayed for many nights." Agnon himself was born in the Galicia region of Austro-Hungarian Poland, went to Palestine as a very young man, then back to Europe during World War I before returning to his adopted homeland. Obvious elements of disenchanted autobiography are present in the words that another character speaks to the guest: "When a man sees that there is no place...
...four months ago. About to begin commercial-airline pilot training, he was ordered back to duty with Squadron VA831. "I'm not upset," said Dodge. "I'm very anxious to see justice done." Another who felt the same way was Marko Jukica, a naval gunner in the Austro-Hungarian fleet during World War I. On mobilization day, Jukica offered his services to the Navy, was politely turned down when he admitted that he was 79 years...
...breakup of empires has always given rise to new states. After World War I, the Paris Peace Conference put together Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia from disparate (and still not fully united) remnants of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and independent Serbia. The collapse of the colonial empires after World War II brought about a rash of such arbitrary creations. Many ex-colonial countries had sovereignty conferred on them by their former masters under the U.N.'s aegis, without the often salutary experience of having to fight for their freedom. Such countries are apt to be based on arbitrary old colonial boundaries...