Austria-Hungary Reunited Today

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[@wickwien1835]

Old Austrian joke: A: "Have you watched the football match Austria-Hungary?" B: "No. Against whom?"

[@fuller178]

Yeeeah we have this one too xd

[@biserkastanisic353]

... against Croatia, of course! And that is not just "a joke", that is historical truth. You continental central european people seek direct approach to the Adriatic sea, don't you? And Croatia as an independent state is just an obstacle to ypur ambitions. So, you don't want that Croatia as a political entity and an sovereign state even exist. You would rather provoke (again!) new World war to 'reset all'...

[@wickwien1835]

@@biserkastanisic353 You are totally right of course. Well, at least if your date is 1918. If that's not the case you may have missed out on one or two events that took place in the meantime. Or does Slovenia count as continental central European country?

[@andyhx2]

There is same joke about Czechia-Slovakia but in English it doesn't sound right.

[@kapperboi6452]

same joke about denmark and norway, because of the personal union we had.

[@MLKshit]

as a Victoria player I'd say the empire name for it should be the Danubian Federation.

[@beaukennedy4618]

M.Laser yeah

[@hoosacmusicman9108]

How about "United Provinces of Danube-Carpathia?" It would be a Constitutional monarchy with an elected bicameral parliament. The upper house is structured to represent the shared/equal power of the provinces, while the lower house seats are apportioned by population. In other-words, a legislature structured like the US Congress, except with a Prime Minister as head of government and Emperor as head of state. The capital would be Budapest since the city is more centrally located.

[@AlwaysRM_]

The Danubian EMPIRE

[@vituzui9070]

I think the Danubian Kingdom would be better.

[@brozjoszip6401]

@@MLaserHistory sir. This name you suggested was in the dreams of Lajos Kossuth. It was his idea.

[@Aaron-pe7xk]

+50 points for saying "Blessed" Charles.

[@biharek7595]

How bout we do the Habsburgian credit points system?

[@tomasvrabec1845]

"14% agnostic" so basically the whole Czechia 😂😂

[@theprezydent6250]

Why are they so irreligious

[@StromcekDavid]

Because the Catholics were doing bad things to us?

[@karlmartin9022]

@@theprezydent6250 communism

[@Edbi18]

@Igor Peixoto well most czechs were forced to be catholics, and until 20th century the normal thing was if dad/grandpa were catholics you were too cuz you didnt had choice in that

[@Pyrochemik007]

@@theprezydent6250 It is a long story. Religion across history was used to supress us. In 9th century, it was german catholic priests who chased away scholars of byzantium empire, who were spreading faith in slavic language. In 1405, it was german priests who burned alive a church reformator, who wished just for church to give up earthly possesions - partialy. It caused an uprising which lasted for a few decades, and chased away several crusades. But the ruined society caused the fall of former major political player of Holy Roman Empire, the Bohemian kingdom, into hands of Austria´s monarch. Habsbuks were hard sided with pope, which resulted in suppresion and expulsion of protestants, causing an exodus of many who could afford it. That lead to nobility being replaced by trustworthy ones, emperors friends. Suddenly your lord was diferent religion, could not speak your language. Since the monarchy was quite backwards, peasants had no rights for very long. Meanwhile catholic church was cooperating with state against people to supress any dissent. When czechoslovakia was established by treaty in 1918, it took over a year for vatican to acknowledge us. All of this was happening while you were forced to pay taxes to church, which contributed by nothing to society. A few schools and hospitals were not worth the investment. Since they were cut of income, religion started slowly decline. It was sped up in 1948 when communist party took over, but honestly, there was no great support for religion, since it is no secret that catholic church in many cases sided with nazis. This development is the exact opposite of what happened in poland, where church sided with people throughout history.

[@kekicev7435]

As a Croatian, I would support the reunification as long as we would get autonomy as we had in Austria-Hungary. (Triune Kingdo)

[@deponensvogel7261]

Lucky for you, almost all territories of 1867 Austria-Hungary are, in fact, united again, that is under the umbrella of the European Union.

[@froglifes6829]

@@deponensvogel7261 BiH is not in the EU

[@deponensvogel7261]

@@froglifes6829 Bosnia was occupied in the late 1870s and annexed in 1908.

[@froglifes6829]

@@AUSSIETAIPAN Trust a Slovenian to lie about their nationality and call themselves Australian which is even worse Lmao. Ashamed of where you come from?

[@jokekopter2509]

​@@AUSSIETAIPAN we were so famuse (We Croats as military) that Napoleon even said:"If I at least hade 100k Croats,I would have counqverd the world

[@hencrazy]

[Serbian screeching intensifies]

[@Cardan011]

b& nothing to screech about 😂, we ended that shit 100 years ago

[@Cardan011]

Kyril J you obviously have no clue what you are talking about

[@opasnapanda4227]

@@ANDELE3025 Austria-Hungary buttraped forever by Serbs

[@mihneavoinic8411]

Romania: am i a joke to u

[@Some_Dutch_Kid]

What if a Serbian nationalist killed 1 of the leaders of the Austro-Hungarian empire and then ww3 started

[@josephstalin7353]

Italians: *CONFUSED SCREAMING*

[@alengrm7488]

They will finally lose Trieste.... muhahaha

[@blockytart]

Romanians: HIGH PITCHED DEMONIC SCREETCH

[@Metternich_Enjoyer]

South Tyrol finally goes back where it belongs!

[@Shunteration]

Following the failed 1848-'49 Hungarian Revolution against the Habsburg rule, both Austrians and Hungarians came up with ideas as to how to more firmly unite the empire, whilst giving everyone their respective rights and autonomy. These plans coalesced in terms of solutions, despite being created within the knowledge of the other: Hungarian noble and exiled revolutionary, Lajos Kossuth came up with the idea of the Danube Confederation, which would've reformed the country into a democratic commonwealth, while in Vienna, the idea of "Greater Austria", the federalization of the empire was brought up. The first step in this direction would've been the introduction of Trialism, which would've included the Kingdom of Croatia (which was considered a part of the Kingdom of Hungary at the time) to be on the same legislative level as Austria and Hungary. This was firmly opposed by Hungarian nobility, and with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand (heir to throne, and the main proponent of this reform), and the outbreak of WW1, it could never be realized. I suppose a modern version of Austria-Hungary *could* be simply called the Habsburg Empire (in the same vein as Saudi Arabia is called, well, Saudi Arabia), but it seems more likely that the Danube Confederation (or Confederation of the Danube) would be the name to go with. The new empire would be a federalized commonwealth of it's constituting countries, with a joint military force, and interlinked industry, agriculture, infrastructure and commerce (as well as independent, sovereign institutions and additions to the federal services). It's "level of federalization" would be somewhere in between the EU and the U.S.A. - close knit, but with each member having a great amount of independence. Should the emperor return, but not be crowned as the ruler of any of the countries - i.e., he would be the ruler of the Empire, but not the Emperor of Austria, or the King of Hungary -, the imperial states would be dubbed "crowned republics", keeping their democratic system, but with the emperor replacing the position of the "president of the republic". Even if the monarchy is restored, it would only be a constitutional system, similar to the United Kingdom's. The flag would have to be either a tasteful amalgemation of all the colors and iconography of the flags of the constituting states, or something based entirely on flag of the Habsburg dynasty.

[@kbodo65]

SONBoomer Thank you, but no thank you. The so called " empire" never been an empire. The habsburgs simply occupied hungary, stollen the Holy Crown used the weakness after the big long fight with the ottomans! The habsburgs was in huge depth for the fugger "bankers" ( more like a maffia). This is why all the goods, silver, gold, salt ect. ended up in Fugger's hands and all the population went poor. The empire age was a real nightmare!

[@ivanpoparic1984]

SONBoomer sounds plausible

[@brozjoszip6401]

Sir. I can see you know history and "democratic" rules. I know, noone cares, but the major territory of that country used to be the 1000 years old Hungarian Kingdom. The land of the holy crown. And that is not just a crown. The holy crown have a spirit which still keeps people in the Carpathian Basin together. People living on the territory of the holy crown used to be and must be friendly to each other again.

[@brozjoszip6401]

@@kbodo65 I would not blame the Habsburgs alone. There was no cohesion and we lost our way and lost the old values. That is why we lost the old Hungarian Kingdom. So the sick minds of leaders and people was the real poison.

[@kbodo65]

@@brozjoszip6401 No, not at all! The Austrian king black mailed hungary, the Holy Crown was in custody, the population 3/4 was killed or kidnapped to the arabic lands as a slave, more than half of land was occupied by ottomans. In this situation the so called habsburgs didn't give help for hungarians but wanted to take hungarians silver, salt, gold mines because been in financial trouble by the fugger banksters. We do not lost any value, we do not been week! Hungarians and Polish saved the austrians backside from ottomans and they want to kill us rather than say thank you! Never trust the german!

[@Mew178]

As a Croat yes, woudn't mind living in it since i speak Czech and German.

[@matejbb]

@dʒeɪms Why would they do that?

[@Salisburskej]

tak to jo potom

[@meh2.061]

If Austria-Hungary do keep their borders under their autonamy, then depending on where you live, you may have to speak Hungarian rather than German.

[@wolfgang6517]

Hey, croatia was favoured by franz joseph i soo you wouldn't need czech

[@schnitzelhd3844]

the hell... someone speaks Czech outside of the Czech Republic??? -a czech peasant

[@MarioIvancic-HR]

Im in full product of Austria-Hungary, so this was great country. I live in Croatia and im Croat, but look at my ancestors family names. :D Ivančič- Slovenia Huber - Austria Cavallin - Italia Dolgih - Russia Hromatka -Czech Godec - Slovenia Završnik - Slovenia Brajdić - Croatia Gregorić -Croatia

[@georgeatallah1128]

It proves the diversity, haha

[@hanbanaroda]

Hi! Are you sure about Hromatka? Theres only one "Hromatka" living in the Czechia right now (born 1940), but there are 756 "Hromádka" surenames in total right now. And 1354 "Hromádková" :-D Theres interesting site about that, you can search any neme or surename in Czechia www.kdejsme.cz

[@juliane__]

I really like that, because it proves you can't evole into a nationalist maniac as felt too many people do today. For my part, i only know that my ancestors came from many regions in central europe, most were appearantly german, but i am not so sure about that. Many names are not only german. I guess they germanized names, what many people did in 19th century. I guess i need a DNA test to know more.

[@diewildemathilde4432]

If the nations of the former empire would have known what happens to them after 1918, they would have stuck together, no matter who hates who, it would have been a thousand times better than german invasions and 4 decades of communist dictatorship. I could imagine it, that if they stuck together, the empire would have become a(sadly) Vienna centered union (e.g. united states of central europe) and the economy would have become one of the best in europe/world. Greetings from Austro-slovenian border region. :)

[@alengrm7488]

Hello from lower Styria

[@jaty3313]

Unfortunatelly if the AH Empire still had existed during the WWII, it would most probably join the cause of Germany and Italy, as many of them splitt up states did anyway (Austria, Hungary, Slovakia) and it would had been a very similar coalition to the WWI before Italy backed out.

[@marjanp]

@@jaty3313 They would join the cause, fascism is all about nationalism, AO was multinational. They would gain nothing from the war only lose from it.

[@nou1438]

You mistake one thing tho, We liked communist dictatorship.... Until the Tito died we were relativly happy

[@Edbi18]

well if austria gave Bohemia same autonomy like they gave Hungary, empire would never broke

[@ivanpoparic1984]

The way in which the United Habsburg Monarchies (?) would be run would be very complicated, but I speculate: An Imperial Council (Reichsrat?) in Wien as a federal parliament with a Chancellor as the leader of a government, and Local Parliaments (Austrian, Hungarian, Croatian, Czech, etc.) with local governments to act on a autonomous level. Each of the local governments should be headed by an elected viceroy (called Ban in Croatia). Imperial Council is elected every 6 years, and local parliaments every 4. Actions of the Imperial Council can be vetoed by a simple majority (51%) of the local parliaments. Their veto can be counter - vetoed by the 2/3s of the Imperial Council with the Emperor-King's blessing. The Counter-veto can be vetoed by the 2/3 of the local parliaments, and this one can't be overrun Now, I myself ,as a Croat, can see myself in a Habsburg Neomonarchy, but only if it is a true, unprivileged, federation.

[@ivanthegreat2.070]

And what else does the Emperor King do?

[@wolfgang6517]

As an Austrian, i agree

[@ms_publisher7143]

@@ivanthegreat2.070 act as a unifying figurehead and bring in tourism money

[@fluggenn]

wouldnt it be better to put the "Capital" more in the middle of the empire?

[@antonijajelic2575]

brother to brother, Pole, Austria, Slovenia, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian with Croats 🇭🇷

[@antonijajelic2575]

@Roblox Troll you would be proud to be a Croat

[@antonijajelic2575]

@Roblox Troll you don't know much (about Croats) when you don't like someone, a man who lived in my street many centuries ago wrote the first multilingual dictionary in Europe with five main languages ​​(and mine). My city got electricity first in Europe. The Croats defended (with the help of the above) Europe from the Ottomans. Napoleon said he had a hundred thousand Croats to conquer the whole world. 🇭🇷🌞

[@antonijajelic2575]

@Roblox Troll and you were certainly someone's puppet because for the most part there were no present-day states, neither Italy nor Germany, trolu 🙃 we get you in football and in the Nobel Prizes 😀

[@antonijajelic2575]

@Roblox Troll more tourists have visited my country than yours so wherever you are. the most beautiful country. the football finals were watched by 4/5 billion people. nice greetings and good luck

[@antonijajelic2575]

if you are able to visit pyrotex DALMATIA (Dubrovnik, ŠIBENIK, Split, Zadar, Hvar, Mljet, Korčula, Brač, Paklenica, Krka, Kornati etc.) - Croatia 🌞🇭🇷, then Plitvice Lakes, Kopački rit, Rovinj, Brijuni, Opatija and much the sea ❤️

[@tombkings6279]

The Austro Hungarian empire was lit 🔥 Literally

[@HeadsetHatGuy]

nice pun

[@abbba2007]

Underrated comment

[@InauguralAgate6]

You're one of the best small youtubers I've seen. I thought this was a video by a bigger channel that has a similar series for a second but It was a pleasant surprise to see this one because I liked it better. I've been subbed for a while now and I know it might not mean much to have 153 subs just yet, but I'm sure we're all rooting for you to go big one day. You have really good quality videos, so please keep up the good work!

[@j.philipjimenez3395]

Reviving the Austro-Hungarian Empire at this point in history would be a wonderful thing! The wisdom of old Europe, a deep pool of talent, huge industrial potential and it would provide balance in this lopsided world. Also, Karl von Habsburg is a highly dedicated, insightful and forward-thinking public servant. He is incredibly active and involved in world affairs. And he is a genuine human being!

[@antoniovrdoljak9075]

As a Croat i want it back

[@slenderman27490]

The video fails to mention that Croatia already HAD autonomy, parliamet and it's own viceroy in the AH empire.

[@antoniovrdoljak9075]

@@slenderman27490 yeah, but would you support a reunification of Kuk?

[@fluggenn]

@@antoniovrdoljak9075 I mean the only option is that every state has almoast full autonomy. every state goversn itself and only the foreign affairs are dealt with together. Altough they would need a commong language wich would most likely be german but they would all keep their local language.

[@gaboca1200]

It's way too late now, the last time that federal state could have been happened was before the lost war. But sadly nationalism was a stronger idea in every nation back then. And hungarian leaders at the time were also very short-sighted, and blinded by the idea of the 1000 year old kingdom of hungary and their pride to support a plan that would give equal rights for all nations in the empire. Yeah, how different our history could have been. But they fucked it up back then.

[@ivowehsely9131]

I think it would be a contitutunal monarcy Like the uk, I think the ferderation of the danube would be a great Name.

[@Scoffslaphead72]

IvoTheKid i think 'Balkan states of austria' would be cool

[@ivanthegreat2.070]

@@Reichsritter maybe a semi constitutional monarchy? Emperor controls mostly foreign policy, with a few internal powers, and parliament gets the rest basically, along with a prime minister.

[@jorenskisvenski37]

Viktoria player

[@CosmicDreamer5]

Thanks, really enjoyed being able to add this as a resource to my genealogy research. This added another layer of perspective into where Hungarian ancestors came from.

[@FatheredPuma81]

Interestingly from a immigration point of view (since most of the countries seem to dislike the mass immigration going on in Europe) it could actually be pretty good. Austria-Hungary would have quite a lot of weight to throw around compared to the countries individually negotiating on their own. Also from a defense point of view 1 large country is always better than a bunch of small countries.

[@deponensvogel7261]

The Visegrád states are doing exactly that already, apart from generally undermining the supremacy of Union institutions of course.

[@jakubzov]

@@deponensvogel7261 visegrad is a cancer. I am from slovakia and I hate it. It ultimately exists just to undermine eu and to keep power for populists. And we are not in the best term either. Slovakia and Hungary don't really like each other much in political scene which is really sad. And now Poland and Czechia is more critical of Hungary due to orban

[@loanna5500]

As Czech i would be happy if we will be part of Habsburg Empire (name for country) with constitucion and autonomy for each state

[@loanna5500]

M.Laser i know, i know. ...

[@RubiksCubeArt]

Hungarians would never support a state with this name, Austria-Hungary instead.

[@denisoko8494]

Yes, sell it somebody else, Austria-Hungarian empire had concentration camps for non title ethnical groups from colonies during WWI, for those who didn't want to be a part of any empire. F@ck these protoNazi and their Austria-Hungary imperial crap!

[@phobics9498]

Where did you get that from really ? because that is so absurd, there are so many things that are wrong with your argument that i am not even going to try to say why they are absurd And btw the serbian nationalists that shot ferdinand von habsburg in 1914 really just shot themselves in the foot because ferdinand planned to make a federalized state called the united states of austria with each country having a autonomic goverment

[@CODELIRIOUS-sy8xz]

Frenzy The serbs did what was right. He visited Sarajevo at national Serbia day. That to them was a spit in the face

[@mattforchi]

Great video dude. As an Austrian, it would be kinda nice to have direct access to the sea again but then again, there are no border controls within the EU anyway :)

[@CristianPopaDi]

Romania is basically that, we've got all major landscapes that a country can have in Europe.

[@mattforchi]

Cristian Popa true! Italy and France have all sorts of landscapes as well :)

[@milanrastislavstefanik2688]

Most large countries have access to the sea and lots of other terrains. Most notably Russian, China or USA.

[@kostam.1113]

When you became part of Germany again you will have access to Baltic and North sea.

[@l.h.9747]

ich weiß ich möcht auch seezugang haben aber leider... ich wünscht die monarchie währe zurück und die gebiete auch. giebt eh eine monarchistische partei aber die is leider zu klein :(

[@frekcho850]

If Austria and the Hapsburgs weren't so heavily influenced by Germany and the EU, this basically balances power in central Europe.

[@roban2799]

Servus! I definitely think that Danubian Federation would be a great name.

[@markussimicak104]

As a slovenian I rather like the European Union, we get to keep our independence while being supported in a unified system

[@thisismacom3723]

Just wait until EU's economy collapsed

[@froglifes6829]

@@AUSSIETAIPAN Youre not a Slovenian if youre not born and rasied in Slovenia. You call yourself australian what would an aussie know about a free country? Nothing theyve never lived in one they Will never know. Youre the most unlucky person on earth... Imagine Being both Slovenian and australian thats Like having cancer and AIDS at the same time.

[@jakubzov]

@@thisismacom3723 that won't happen. It is more probable that local economies fall without Euro.

[@deadset15-hrvavik17]

Why not call it the Croatian-chech-slovak-polish-ukranian-bosnian-serb-romanian-Slovenian-austrian-hungary empire

[@deadset15-hrvavik17]

M.Laser yup im a croat so i can say that I wouldn’t want Australia-Hungary oh. Wait I believe I misspelled something

[@Bluebanana2121_]

Stole my idea

[@Leo-uu8du]

@Rook But use a neutral order. E.g. Alphabetical: Austrian-Bosnian-Slovakian-Slovenian-Croatian-Czech-...-Hungarian Empire

[@dalmatianroyalist9326]

@@deadset15-hrvavik17 I am a Croat and I do indeed want our king of the Habsburg to be back on the throne.

[@andreipop5805]

@Rook so you're implaing Austrians, Hungarians, Romanians and Italians immigrated here? At least the Austrians and Latins have been here long before the Slavs so what on Earth are you implying?

[@jaquestrap]

The only way it could work is if it avoided taking territory from nations which it would not be fully annexing in the union (the "Partial Annexation" list at 1:23). Meaning no acquisition of Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Italian, Serbian, or Montenegrin territory etc. These nations which had PART of their territories annexed (as opposed to being fully integrated into this renewed empire) would be fundamentally inclined to take back their territory and reunite with their co-nationals who were now living under foreign rule, separated from their own countries. Poland would not stand by as Krakow is annexed, nor would Ukraine allow Lviv to be taken, nor Romania be okay with half of it's country being lobbed off. Assuming it is just a union of Austria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia & Herzegovinia, it could theoretically work as essentially a smaller, more integrated and regionalized version of the EU. But eventually, as we've seen with the EU, people would get sick of their nations no longer having full sovereignty and having foreign policy decisions made by other people.

[@breaderikthegreat3224]

Finnally someone who doesn't forget that a little bit of Montenegro Was part of it

[@tomasvrabec1845]

While I can't imagine it as a nation, I can imagine the federation of Danube as something along the lines of European union. The difference is that it would not be open for application and ve geographically specific, there is less countries which makes it easier to maintain and it would likely not try fo have the same currency as that... Can be problematic and many already have the Euro.

[@FOLIPE]

The EU is geographically specific. Australia can't be a member

[@itsjustme4848]

It’s difficult to imagine, even in an imaginary scenario, that the Czechs would want to be part of anything except their own country, It was difficult to hold the empire together when it existed. Only Austrian determination kept it together, and today the empire would just be a big financial drain on Austria. So Austria would not want it either. And Hungary would probably want it only if they were in charge.

[@berndirouschek7036]

I am Austrian with CZech roots and I think Austria would have made a big, well working union out of it. The biggest problem was the 4 decades of communist governments that ruined individuality, the motivation to work hard and engagement. Today, if you take a look at the former eastern countries, what di you see there? OMV gas stations, Billa groceries, Uniqua insurances, Raiffeisen banks... so the most important economic infra-structure is in the hands of Austrian companies. But they are exploiting more than they do for the people...

[@csbanki]

As a Hungarian I'd say it's a pretty interesting thought and worth thinking about it. Sure, you could say we'd give up our independence and all that, but: 1: We've already given up that long ago (EU, NATO, all sorts of business pacts, etc...). 2: It's pretty much just about ego. Who cares if it would result in a better life? Obviously we should learn from our past mistakes, give equal rights to all citizens, and all together look past our differences. It would definetly give a big boost to the economy and quite possibly put an end to the bad blood between neighbours.

[@romanpolanski3934]

I live in the territories of the former Habsburg monarchy and as a Pole, I do not mind to keep it, but on one condition. We will also include other areas inhabited by Poles :-)

[@romanpolanski3934]

@@bedijoci I totally understand such a position. Poles would be almost the half population of the kingdom. I believe that nations should not be divided. That means that the concept discussed in the video should exclude Poles and Ukrainians.

[@romanpolanski3934]

@@bedijoci Sorry, but it won't work. Poles never accept this. We were struggling to be united for many decades.

[@lightypower3412]

Sadly, I live a few hundred kilometres too far north to be included, but as my ancestors were in the Imperial Army back then, I'd settle there and join it as well. Niech żyje Cesarz! Niech żyje Federacja!

[@moravianmargrave6509]

Czech government is falling apart, so, if the Habsburgs play it well, they're gonna get crowned as kings of Bohemia by 2023 and get the title of margraves of Moravia, Slovakia would join within a year after because Slovakia and by 2025 they could take control of Austria and Hungary will follow soon because their government is broken too. We now have every historical region included without intervening anyone elses borders and we can begin spread of the newly built empire. By 2030 we have a new European superpower.

[@jakubzov]

@@moravianmargrave6509 I doubt that this will happen

[@konczk]

The naming would be an interesting challenge. We could just unite the two traditional halves and call it Leithania, but the Leitha is barely a river, so naming it after the Danube would make more sense. Danubia for short and United Danubian Empire as an official name sounds about right.

[@challengehub5682]

What if Austria-Hungry reunited? Everyone: Me: immediate collapse

[@leighparker9109]

Beautiful vid. 👍

[@mashuu7939]

As a Slovak, I would be okay with living in a federalized modern Austria-Hungary with constituanal monarchy, similiar to UKs

[@fluggenn]

As a Hungarian i wouldnt call it Austria-Hungary but rather the Danubian Federation just so we dont exclude big parts of the state

[@mashuu7939]

@@fluggenn Yeah, thats true, many ethnicities would get pissed of to not be represented in the states name itself

[@MartinOzarek123abc]

Great vid ;D

[@lynxlecher9547]

As a Romanian, I would love that this would happen just so that Transylvania would stop being attached to the Bulgarian Turks in Bucharest, who are no brothers of mine.

[@kitiowa]

The name would be the 'Hapsburg Union". The head of the House of Hapsburg would serve as head of state in each of the current countries but they would retain their current status as sovereign states. It would function similarly to the EU. Ein Zollverein mit Kroner einheit. A unified Council with delegates from each state to manage relations between the various kingdoms.

[@fluggenn]

Its kinda weird to see so many people who are not hungarian or austrian wish for the return of the empire. It just makes me feel happy that the animosity of these people slowly decreeses

[@bence42424]

I'd love to reorganise the empire. I'd like to bame it as: United Habsburg Empire. However, some countries may not acceept it: Croatia,Slovakia,Czeh republic, some parts of Poland and Italy and Romania. Basicly it would be impossible to reunite the empire. (Only by force)

[@SRB.4S]

I agree with both you and the Italian

[@charlesnapoleon9070]

What if we make Austria-Hungary-Czechnoslovakia-Illyria

[@alengrm7488]

As Slovenian, I would love to unite with Austria again(most of Slovenians speak German, so language won't be a problem)

[@sqly3129]

Czechs liked the Empire, we only wanted more autonomy, but still be part of it. Now? Dunno

[@valentintapata2268]

@@alengrm7488 That is not true, there is a big MINORITY* that speaks German - that means that most would have a problem. *Edit: not meant as ethnical minority.

[@Aldmeris]

Very nice video, M.Laser.

[@branimirculo6149]

Transdanubian federal republic, capital in Budapest, 'Slavonic' as most common language with latin script, organized on federal principle.

[@Thebatmantyler]

6:30 here is a name that was a real name for the the renaming of the empire if they won ww1 The United States of Great Austria

[@JohnDoe-dd7ne]

For a Flag, I would suggest the Hapsburg Symbol considering it is a lot nicer than the proposed multi-colored flags and seems more realistic considering the nations are united federally under the monarch or ‘emperor’.

[@antonfrieser8435]

@M.Laser have a look at the concept proposed by Franz Ferdinand called the United States of Greater Austria, its still a bit backward but would be great to develop and modernize to create a system similar to the USA.

[@valterbezerra488]

I would Remember the plans of Franz Ferdinand , so if I rule the Empire i the name should be United States of Greater Austria , the provinces would be Autonomous and the Government would be an Federal Constitutional Monarchy

[@CO84trucker]

I'm Polish and Austrian with some south German ancestors and Hungarian extended family. I'm all down for Austria-Hungary 2.0!! AEIOU🇦🇹KuK

[@gwimmer98]

Who here is from Austria and can watch this without having crazy imperial fantasies or indulging in deep nostalgia?

[@tobiasfischer6852]

pretty badass (ich auch)😂👌

[@simonbodobrandstatter421]

Make Austria great again! (I‘m austrian)

[@walterusalbus]

WHAT MUSIC IS THIS OMG I HEARD IT SOME WERE IT WAS LIT AS HE*CCC YOUR VIDEO IS EVEN MORE LITT THEN THE LIT MUSICC

[@artuilech.7506]

You heard it from drew durnil

[@Firmus777]

Another name for the Empire used to be the Danubian Monarchy. Another name which seems to be popular among monarchists is the k. u. k. Monarchy coming from German Kaiserliche und königliche Monarchie meaning the Imperial and Kingly Monarchy.

[@phelyxz]

For the name: it sometimes was referred to as the 'Donaumonarche' which translates to Monarchy of the Danube. I think that name would be a good starting point . It would depend a bit on the legal construction in which direction it should go: Danube monarchy, Danube federation, Danube Union, United Danube States, Danube Kingdom. If the bounding factor is indeed the Habsburgs then I would go with Danube Kingdom.

[@dave1287]

As an Austrian I belive the official Name would be a very long one. And as a classy reaction the citizens would just call it „Kaiserreich“ instead :) Back in the old days people identified themselfes much more over their region, this proudness was respected by the leaders. You would be a Böhme, Mähre, Tiroler etc.

[@ICHBinCOOLERalsJeman]

as an austrian I wouldn't mind living in a Danubian Federation and even with an autorcratic leader it would probably still manage to be more democratic than the EU

[@MartinOzarek]

what a great vid ;D

[@Pidalin]

Name? What about Sceptic Club? :-D

[@steiraman1]

For German you can use an Austrian flag, because it is also the official language of Austria! Like using a UK or US flag for english depending of the context. You would not use a UK flag if talking about the US or vice versa!

[@HUNVilly]

We need to make this happen :)

[@tobeytransport2802]

I think it could work if you made it a federal state with a bicameral legislature and various councils to ensure balance, as well as provincial parliaments. You probably wouldn’t be able to get parts of certain countries to join, either the whole country or None of it Unless that country has a right of succession in its constitution already.

[@ms_publisher7143]

Similar to Switzerland and the European Union english could maybe be used as the lingua franca to avoid disputes about which language to use in politics

[@derherrdirektor9686]

The lingua franca would be Latin... It's a catholic behemoth. (I'm a firm atheist.)

[@ms_publisher7143]

@@derherrdirektor9686 maybe but who speaks Latin there? Probs not many people especially compared to English. Also Latin as a language lacks a lot of the vocab for the modern day

[@Awakeningspirit20]

I think they'd be able to get along a lot better today and the Empire make a lot more sense than in 1918... so many of those countries, if not all of them, are already in NATO, the EU, or both! It would be a strange microcosm of the EU but shifted southeast to newer parts of it, not to mention parts that were formerly Bloc states. Maybe it took all that hell of the past century for Austria-Hungary to make sense.

[@ohnoitsthecatman738]

The Danubian Republic, official Language, Slovenian since it is a minor language which shares grammar with both the west and south slavic languages but would require everyone to engage in learning and a focus on trilingual education example: Finland where Everyone speaks Finnish, most speak Swedish + either English or Russian

[@krystofhavir7593]

As a Czech, I wouldn´t living in it, but it would have to be a federation (united under the Habsburg monarch, same currency, unified military and foreign affairs, but every region would have their own government, social infrastructure, laws and so on)

[@busodelor1977]

I dont want this, Austria should remain in his actuell borders, we are in the EU, that is enough, we have good scocial infrastructure, the Czechs should made it for themselves the AustrianHungary countries till 1918 wanted away from the "Austrian Prison", it was bether with the communists???? why did they come to Austria in 1968, first the Czechs hatet Austria, now they want come back - i dont want them

[@blockytart]

"Austria-Hungary reunited today" WAIT IT DID? AAAHHH

[@mitjakocjancic2205]

I'd call it "A bunch of people who hate each others' guts trying to work together" xD Basically a real life Ebonheart pact hahah

[@dootdoot5439]

Yes, i would like to live there, the name would be “The Central European Empire”. It would be a triple monarchy(Austrian Monarchy, Hungarian Monarchy and Slavic Monarchy).

[@vodkavecz]

The concept is neat, and we can see the cooperation of these countries somewhat in the V4. But if it would happen nowadays, economically, I think this empire would crumble sooner or later. There's just too big of a gap between the western countries and the post-communist ones. Sooner or later there would be accusations of Austria needing to support its partner states to the east. Sure, the countries behind could be uplifted to about the same level in time, but at what cost?

[@ilyaelric9539]

Language will be the biggest problem. How do you decide which one will be on the governmental papers and which one will be lingua franca? If you choose german (which the most economically and scientifically profitable) Austria will apper to foreigners as the one in charge of everything (even though it's not true). Whith capital in Vienna it'll only solodify their view. I'm from Belarus and my friends and I always run into this problem while talking about PLC which is ALWAYS reffered to as Poland even though Poland was a smaller half of PLC: it's the language of communication and the location of capital that matters. But our situation is even harder, because we don't even have € as our common currency and because Lithuanians hate us for some reason(

[@adrianwitkowski2999]

Wisła Krakow vs Austria Wien Cracovia vs Rapid Wien ? Sounds interesting Austro-Hungarian League matches to watch .

[@kyriljordanov2086]

I heard Otto von Habsburg give a talk in Austria in the late 90s. I had to walk out after listening to him speak for 20 minutes about how great Muslim immigration is for Europe.

[@wolfgang6517]

Otto respected turkish and bosnian Muslims. But he always had some strong views when it comes about mass uncontrolled immigration

[@andrei19238]

To be fair to him that was in the 90s

[@Corim75]

I personally would like to live in such a state. And it doesn't need to be empire. More like and federation. Constitutional federation. BTW i personally think that dissolving the Austrian Hungarian Empire was a mistake. It should have been transformed in a federative state.

[@julianschwarz426]

As a Austrian i would like it. For me the Capital shoulf be in Bratislava or at the danube, between vienna and budapest. The flag should be gold and black like at the time of 1800. Or white and with stars wich everyone has a different colour for evey Nation

[@steiraman1]

Intro for further detail of decisionmaking and thought. Can be skipped. Read on from "Role in Europe the world" below: Thoughtout scenario if the smaller nations and peoples of central Europe would decide to rejoin in a political union under a parliamentary democratic monarchy. (So I left out Polish, Romanian and Serbian people and the historic regions of the empire they lived in because their intrest historically are better represented bey their respective nations and there would be no will for people in galizia for example to join the federation, because the partition of Poland is something that should never occur again, in my view, and I think also in the view ol Polish people themselves. Similar for Serbia and Romanian people in Bosnia, Vojvodina and transylvania) In the case of Trentino and Trieste I decided that Trantino should remain a part of Italy, beasue otherwise you get the same situation a s it is now with South Tyrol but the other way aroung. However, I think that Trieste should be a part of the federation, because the large Italian influence today was largely a result of the last 100 years ad in South Tyrol because tof that you have also quite some Italian speking peple today. Since Trieste is THE history port town of the monarchy, it just made sense. So there are Italien minroities in South Tyrol and trieste (which mostly live there because of the consequences of WW1 the treaty of Saint-Germain and the Italinisation policies of Mussolini. Pf course Italian minorities have to have a special status (schools, guarantedd seats of parliament in regional and federl parliaments and if desired a dual citizenship. further details below.) Role in Europe and the world: Member of the EU. With 68 seats in Eur par (Total new 675 because of less samller and 1 more big country) about 10% of seats. 1 Seat from Italy. 2 steast from Romania. EU enlargement by bosnian regions not inhabited by Serbian paople and Vojvodina regions where Hungarians live). NATO member. Western orientation. Strong ties to all nieghbours: Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Switherland and other Balkan NAtions outside the federation. (Fringe topic but important for relations to he Middle east and for Integation and Migration in Europe: Building up of an important and pretigius islamic faculty in Bosnia and teaching a liberal European Islam as a blueptrint for other islamic faculties in Europe). So there is also a bridge role to Turkey and liberal and moderate countrie in the MIddle East. Possible names: - Imperial democratic federation of Danube and Moldavia (the two river systems covering the area) or - Imperial democratic federation of the house Habsburg Lorraine Flags: - Federal flag: gold and black, cote os arms od house habsburg (black double eaded eagle witht the cote of arms of the family) surrounded by the cote od arms of all regions, all equally in size. - Simplified form: only the eagle with the cote of arms of the house - regional flag: todays regional flags with respective colours and cote of arms, regional flags displayed at same hight on secound post for official purposes. Boundaries: Austria, South Tyrol (w/o trentino) , Provincia Trieste, Slovenia, Croatia, Bonsia (w/o rep. srpska), Czechia, Slovakie, Hungary, hungarian parts of transylvania, hungarian parts of the Vojvodina Because: Galicia, trentino, Serbian Parts of Bosnia and Vojvodina and Romanian parts of Transylvania are better represented by their respective larger nation states to avoid disputes and interference by neighbour countries. Capitals: Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Zagreb Rotation of at least the residence of the royal family and minister council meeting locations. Federal administrative bodies spread over all 4 cities. Seats of regional parliaments (Theoretically only 4 regiosn aith an additional layer of regional authority below that level, fither explained under administrative strucutre) *est.: population of Bosnian, Sergbian and transilvanian regions joining based on population ratio of non serbian or romanian population. result mutiplied with nominal GDP/capita for the whole country. Area roughly estimated via look on the map and population ratio. The whole of provincie trieste added. GDP/capita of friuli venezia gulia used for GDP estimation: The whole of south tyrol (w/o trentino) with a GDP estimation from 2017 Popuation total (est.): 45 507 000 GDP nominal € (est.): 860 Billion Area(est.): 422 200 GDP/cap(est): 19 000 €/capita Languages: -Hungarian, German, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Bonsian, Italien (only a portion in trieste and South Tyrol) All equal in the federation by right. In respective regions official language in schools and administration. Every studnent has to learn the regional langauge where the school is and additional 2 languages spoken throughout the imperial federation by the age of 15 (end of compulsury school). 1 language from the 1st class on. English from the age of 1 and the 2nd federal language from the age of 12. At least 1 slavic language. If in Austrie or Hungary 2 north or south slavic languages may not be learned until age of 15 in school. (e.g. Only in Aut and Hun!: Until 15: Ger/Hun+Cro+Cze yes, but Ger/Hun+Cro + Slov No) In Parliaments all languages are equal in use indepedndent of region (translators). adminstrative structure (fedration): - federal level: (military, foreing policies, trade, larger infrastrucutre, certain taxes, universities, research, larger environmental policeis etc.) : *monarch (role similar to UK): head of state, regular meeting with head of government, signs laws adn appointings after passed by parlimanet and council of regions. *parliammet (proportional election system but with election districts to ensure that MP from all regions are part of parliament) * council of regions (4 regions: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, South slavic states). Seats according to population. Determination of representatives uniform for all 4 states, Either election or admission by regional governments(couldn't decide) --> parliament and council have to decide with a 50%+1 rule on regular matters. * constitutional court: decides all constitutional matters on all political levels. - regional lavel: (schools, police, samller infrastrcuture, certain taxes, regional constitutions) critical. policy partition to enable regional level their own specific constitutions - sub regional level: (moliceis and political bodies decided by regional constitutions) Austria: e.g.: Tyrol, Styria, Lower Austria etc., Austr. Styria Hungary: e.g.: Hun. Voyvodina. Hun. Transylvania, etc. South slavic states: Istria, Carniola, Dalmatia, Slawonie, Slov. Styria Czechoslovakia: Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia - County level: lowest administrative level. No political power. County administration (head and body) may be elected. Depending on regional constitutions. - Monarchy an Nobility: Titles of the Monarch: Emperor of the federation of..., Archducke of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia (other hostoric titles...). Counties, regions and larger regions my have also historic titels of nobility, but only by name. So The monarch my asign a title to either members of historic local nobility or members of the royal family if no persons with high achievements for their respective region and the federation ar availabel to hol these honerary titles (honerary title: Should be the most frequent form). Sports: In Olympics competing under one olympic comitee under the federal gold and black flag. In gegular competitions, world and european championships competing under regional flags as of today. Football: Highest league: fedral league with teams from all over the federation. 20 teams. At least 2 teams from all 4 reagion must always be part of the league (comes into play to determine which team goes down.) Also the secound league would be a fereation wide league also with 20 teams and at least 2 teams from all 4 regions. (Similar in other team sports) Possible teams for league 1: Sparte Prag, Salvia PRag, Victoria Pilsen, Rapid Vienna, Austria Vienna, Red Bull Salzburg, Sturm graz, Videoton, Ferencvaros, Honved, Debrecen, Slovan Bratislava, MSK Zilina, NK MAribor, Olympia Ljubliana, Dinamo Zagrab, Hajduk Split, HNK Rijeka, FK Jablonec, Spartak Trnava. National teams in football and other team sports: need to be decided.... One team would be more competitive on the paper.

[@tothmatyasbalint3841]

wow this is very comprihensive. Nicely done. But I would like to add a few things. Regarding Transilvania: At this point it doesn't make sense to devide it, but to create an eastern Belgium. This would stop the money sucking effect of Vallachia and Moldova. Moreover, as far as I know Romanians within Transilvania consider themselves to be different to their compatriots living by the other side of the Carpathians. Remedies should be made for both major ethnic groups. But Nagyvárad, Oradea must be Readded to Hungary since currently the County Bihar is devided into two. The capitol would be Kolozsvár/ Cluj Napoca. Referendum must be held wether it wants to join the Empire or not. Erasmus on drugs programs - this would help the future generations to bond and get to know to each other's culture better. Invest massively in infrasturcture, as the road and railwaynetworks were built for each countrie's own needs not for a big empire's This huge project would create an onslaught of inner migration towards the richer teritories. Virtually all of Austria, Budapest, Bratislava/Pozsony, Prague and richer regions of Czechia. This should be taken into consideration and living standards of poorer regions must be increased. A Cohesion Fund that actually works. Wellfare could help the empire through its tense etchnical conflicts. And I would create a completely new flag that is not too complicated. With an updated Habsburg coat of arms

[@andreipop5805]

@@tothmatyasbalint3841 Transylvanians don't view themselves different than Moldavians and Wallachians. Coming from a Transylvanian. I had once a Hungarian guy asking me why 1918 was so imlortant to us and not 1920 when Romania only recived Trs in 1920. Because on 1 december 1918 every Romanian majoritary county send relresentatives to Alba Iulia and all signed a Union act with the mother country. That showed that most Romanians of Trs considered that their region should be united with Ro. Today feelings are no different. We think of ourselves as Romanians. Regarding the comment above, I don't think that "Hungarian majority theritores" ideea would be a good one since this new A-H would have a very big exclave in Szeklerland. Giving the 1940's border would also not be good because When Fascist Hungary occupied North Trs there were still more Romanians than Hungarians living there (something like 51%-49% but still) so a Romanian state inside this A-H needs to happen.

[@alengrm7488]

Wow Good job..... but in boundaries I will add Provine of Trieste to Slovenia. Also I think that provinces like Slovenian Styria, Austrian Styria and Austrian Carniola, Slovenian Carniola should unite. Now when we've united provinces I'll sort them by region(United Styria, Carinthia and maybe Carniola to Austria; united Istria, Dalmatia and other by sea provinces to new region; Slawonia, Bosnia and Vojvodnlina to Reagon called Balkan, etc.).

[@ms_publisher7143]

Also some sort of annual football championship between each of the nation states of the new emipre would be cool, similar to the six nations in rugby

[@Beeswax106]

@@tothmatyasbalint3841 As far as i know hungarians consider themselfes different from szekely from Romania and szekely are not that welcomed in Hungary like i personally would expect. Sure, they can apply to citizenship and stuff like that but hungarians view them like second class which is not fair.

[@Szentatyaisten]

I wanted to point out that an Empire only would have remained throughout the past century if their is no Great War, which obviously would make all these population type data likely wildly off, but then I rather just want all of us here to think about what it would like to live in a great big and respected country where the worst things to expect are interregional footballhooliganism and friendly banter.

[@nm2000]

Kaisertum Österreich (Austrian Empire) Divided into two autonomous regions; Cisleithania and Transleithania, these are then again split into autonomous regions comparable to the Russian oblasts but with fewer rights. The borders for these "regional autonomous territories" (RaT) would be given by the plan of Greater Austria created by Aurel Popovic in 1906. The official language would be German, so for example all formal events would be held in German but on regional level there would be the other native languages used. In school the first foreign language would be German for the non-german territories and form thee 5th grade on last English. The Capital is Vienna and the state system consist of the two parliament councils, the Abgeordneten Haus (House of Representatives) and the Herrenhaus (upper chamber) which would now consist of the prime ministers of all the regional autonomous territories. The head of the State is the Emperor and all ministers have to be elected by the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives again is directly elected by the people with the system one men on vote. The country is a total democracy and the Aristocracy is representative, however the emperor has a veto right by the election of the ministers and by the election of law, however it shouldn't be in style to use this veto right. The national religion is Christianity and also in school christianity is seen as an important part of the national identity. Bosnian muslims are tolerated but the state is highly against immigration form muslim country and also in Bosnia there is because Gerrymandering a dominance of the Serbs and Croats in the politic of the region of Bosnia. The two great autonomous regions of Cisleithania and Transleithania are under the direct control of the so-called Reichsverweser (Imperial administrators) however there only task is to control that the budget of the Regional Autonomous territories is right and to look that the RaT's not try do discriminators minorities in their territories or think they could split up form the empire. All military troops in the two great Autonomous regions are under the direct control of the Imperial administrators also the SWAT commandos, however for the use of them, a direct order form the Emperor is needed. For the case of War, the House of Representatives has to agree, the upper chamber is only needed for questions like the local education system, the public broadcast fee and similar thinks (like the Bundesrat (federal council) in Germany). The regions in the regional autonomous territories are then again represented in the Parliaments of the RaT's capitals. In these parliaments will also be decided who will represent the respectively RaT in the Herrenhaus. The RaT's prime minister will be elected directly by the people of the respectively RaT and will be in charge for four years (similar to the Imperial government, the members of the Abgeordneten Haus, the Herrenhaus and the Imperial Administrators, only the Emperor is formally in charge for his life time but should abdicate when he is not able to rule anymore. The Austrian Empire is Member of the European Union, NATO, the European Council, the United Nations and many other international Organizations. Also important features of the nation are, that it is very proud on its history, its military, its Multiethnicity, its strict environmental protection laws, its very strict animal protection laws, the monarchy and on its position as a European power house.

[@kbassassin8308]

I think the Empires of old held the regions together far better than the constant warfare now a days. Like when the Ottomans had the middle East, Iraq wouldn't be a killzone. I think WWI and WWII destabilized a lot of regions just to get rid of Empires who were becoming more constitutional with the times anyways

[@Anakunus]

This was an interesting hypothesis. I liked all the statistics that were presented about this "returned empire" - although I wonder why you listed in the diagram of religions "19% Orthodox" and "2% Greek Catholic". Greek Catholicism is just a synonym for Orthodox Christianity, so I have no idea what type of religion those 2% are supposed to be.

[@doppel5627]

Greek Catholics use the Orthodox rite but are in union with the Pope. Unlike the Orthodoxs, they do not have autocephalous patriarch.

[@Anakunus]

@@doppel5627 Really now? That is not what I was taught in school's history lessons.

[@doppel5627]

@@Anakunus I know this is confusing, since Greek Orthodox church call itself Catholic. But there is also a Greek Catholic church, mostly in western Ukraine, Slovakia and even in my country, Croatia. Habsburg emperors, being Roman Catholics, faced the problem with many Orthodox people in the territories they conquered from Ottomans in the beginning of 18th century. So, they came up with idea to establish a church that would recognize the Pope but that would keep the eastern rite. So, this became Greek Catholic church (Greek meaning eastern rite, not of the Greek nation). If you don't trust me, search Greek Catholic Church on Wikipedia

[@sayit462]

I think that Austria sound nice and Hungary also sound nice. So leave as it is. Regards from Poland. :)

[@rhenia4855]

it would be a goddamn confederation, the only sensible government for a nation with such a diverse set of cultures and laguages... maybe a... danubian confederation?

[@mrmatejator]

There are lot's of opposing sentiments between those states. So I do not think that those proposed forms are managable and It would be disaster in long run. But if you look at current anti-EU sentiment that is growing in Europe and mostly in eastern Europe then you can predict something in realms of Eastern Europian Aliance that would cooperate in trade and military efforts. While also having similar politics again states that are not in EEA but tottaly independent in all other questions conserning states in EEA. I mean creation of something that is simmilar to original EU but is opposing actual EU, that just has too much power and is interfering with independence of instates. Just make trades better and let millitary to cooperate but do not meddle in other staff.

[@natansandle9284]

I think it could just be called the "United States of Austria", since the word "Austria" was originally the name of the whole empire to begin with. What we now call Austria is just the part of Historical Austria that is populated by Germans.

[@THE_REAL_POLITIK]

Actually before archduke Ferdinand was shot in 1914, he proposed creating a United States of Austria-Hungary.

[@alfonsomonsanto6076]

Maybe the United States of central Europe. United as a Federal Republic, divided by their current national borders. Being Austrian however I would not consider it desirable to unite, just as you said in the video, there is simply too much disparity between the regions within the new state.

[@alfonsomonsanto6076]

That is also true. In some countries that only partly belonged to Austria-Hungary such as Romania, the parts which were within the Empire still tend to be more advanced than those parts which weren't part of the Empire. Furthermore I have heard that people in the area of the former Empire think back of the last decades of the Empire as a genuinely good and prosperous era, which makes sense considering what came afterwards. Ultimately it is really hard to make even an educated guess, as the existence of the Empire would mean that WW1 would have ended differently, which would have prevented WW2 from happening and therefore much of the World would be vastly different today.

[@Dollt28]

Actually as someone who did some research about early twenty century, AHE staying could make WW2 way worse, because already in the late 19th century, there were way too influenced by Germany and after lost WW 1 war, the influence would be even bigger most likely, therefore Germany would annex them most likely if they refused to co-operate

[@alfonsomonsanto6076]

But wouldn't Germany(Prussia) have taken control over AHE after the battle of Königgrätz 1866, if it would have been valuable to them? As far as I know, Bismark decided that AHE would be more valuable to Germany as an ally rather than as a part of Germany. Additionally if Germany would have won WW1, annexing AHE would not have been in the spirit of a united German Empire, as the population was only 30% German.

[@Dollt28]

@Hans Dolf since Germany had plans for war with France (Battle of Sedan 1870), they didn't want total war with AHE and as you wrote, Bismarck preferred them as an ally, however, Bismarck wasn't leader of Germany in the early 20th century. In case Hitler would become leader again, one of his goals was to "unite all germans in one state" and that would certainly include AHE (he managed to get Austria in famous "Anschluss" in the 1938 and even Czechoslovakia which was kind of sacrificed by France (with them Czechoslovakia even had a pact), GB and Italy via Munich Treaty (known as Betrayal in Czech Rep) and gave Czechoslovakia land to Germany, Poland and Hungary)

[@kbodo65]

Did you realised, before the habsburgs occupied hungary, this country's was called countries of Holy Crown? Excluding austria. This countrys voluntary accepted the Holy Crown Laws, have a trade union and defence union. Otherwise all state had own self-dependence, autonomy. I don't think necessary any more corporation between neighbours. The countries of Holy Crown was the original think about Visegrád 4. This is the open group, everyone welcome in.

[@janondrich123]

ok, lets do this :-D

[@robertpucovsky]

As a Vojvodinian myself, I kinda want it back but also don't. It would be a mess but thinking about the economy...

[@alengrm7488]

Sorry but you can't put Slovenian language with Serbo-croatian..... its totally different language. That like you'll put Dutch with German..... oh and for Slovenians won't be such a problem becouse most of us speak german

[@Marl3421]

The best names I could come up with is the Danubian confederation (if a constitutional monarch or republic) or the United Kingdom’s of the Danube (UKD)

[@gamecongamecon7653]

Yes please there’s is too many countries in former Yugoslavia

[@Espingol]

You should do What if the Kalmar Union Reunited Today

[@enlightenedterrestrial]

As a Slovak, I prefer European Union. We retain more freedom and independence while at the same time we are a part of a union of European states.

[@marryc9394]

We could always name the empire on some river that runs through it like the Danube or the Carpathian basin that is located in it? So Danubian Empire or Carpathian Empire?

[@ms_publisher7143]

Danubian federation works well

[@Lukas-lw4eg]

if you want to be geographical, how about Panonian kingdom/federation/something

[@ms_publisher7143]

Some sort of danubian federation would be really interesting today as the relatively minor Balkan and central European states would become another major player in europe which could give the area more focus and influence over the eu and the world, something which it lacks.

[@fluggenn]

It would be quite self sufficient. Hungary has food. Slovakian and Chechia has coal and iron. Austria has the infrastructural integrity, Croatia has the massive tourism. And evrybody else who i left out have some of the previously mentioned stuff. It could be nut just a local but a world power if mannaged adequetly

[@lividus4804]

@@fluggenn Sounds nice !

[@davidnguyen467]

Now make a video on how exert itself on the international stage

[@knightoflight8249]

The United Central European Imperium sounds like a good name to me.

[@user-ci7vu7eo9w]

yes but only with slavic states not austria and hungary

[@alexanderschauer1615]

The problem of today is: Austria is BY FAR the richest state of those who would form modern day Austria Hungary so why would the austrians give up their wealth

[@xnespor1]

What about political power, bigger internal market, Vienna a capital? And keep in mind that rest of Europe grows much faster than Austria e.g. Poland

[@alexanderschauer1615]

@@xnespor1 the rest of europe grows much faster than Austria because when you reach a certain level of wealth you cannot grow as quickly as you did before. but it will take them years to reach Austria’s level that it has now and by then Austria will have grown more again so they cannot catch up. Also, Austria is the only country with population growth (amongst those who would join into the Empire)

[@xnespor1]

@@alexanderschauer1615 yes you are right, at some level of economy growth you cannot grow faster. But look at Germany (East and West) or Italy (North and South), these states are unified despite there are big economical and social differences within these states. And without cold war the HDP spread in the central european region would be minimal. And if we speak about PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) differences in the region are even smaller than GDP differences. E.g. some Slovaks from Bratislava region building houses in Austria, because habitation on Austrian side of the border is chaper than in "paper poor" Slovakia = funny paradox, is not it?

[@busodelor1977]

@@xnespor1 expensive but only in the near of Bratislava

[@xnespor1]

@@alexanderschauer1615Right, higher population growth due imigration. Vienna is no longer austrian city, at least not, if you visit e.g. Prater in the evening.

[@Tomajdafrytrix]

United States of Central Europe Capital: Europa (new capital in the exact center) Languages: English (lingua franca), Czech/Slovak, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbo-Croat, Polish, Ukrainian/Rusyn USCE would be a federative republic made of 15 states: Bohemia, Moravia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Slovakia, Western Galicia, Eastern Galicia, Transilvania, Bosnia, Serbia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slovenia, Torino, Upper Serbia

[@juliusdemichelis8262]

wait. Torino?

[@mariusmic6573]

Actually Banat would also like it's own state :) We're not really Transylvania and for sure not Serbia

[@HeadsetHatGuy]

M. Laser History: Austro-Hungarian Empire Captions: *Australian Empire*

[@molt1046]

As an Austrian, I'm glad to live in an independent, small state.

[@alengrm7488]

What about only uniting Austrian part so Slovenia, Tyrol, parts of Czech and Slovakia and most importantly Trieste will just join Austria....... as Slovenian I would love to unite with Austria again. Language won't be a problem either becouse most of Slovenians already speak german. Slovenians and Austrians have similar culture and our dialect(dialect from Slovenian Styria and Carinthia) is very similar to german language. And Styria, Carinthia and Tyrol will unite again.

[@markussimicak104]

Alen Grm as also a slovenian, I wouldn’t

[@alengrm7488]

@@markussimicak104 Od kod pa si

[@alengrm7488]

@@markussimicak104 Js sm iz Štajerske-Sl.Konjice

[@ExploderMaster18]

i am hungarian from budapest and i would love to live in waht you described