. Outlines of nineteenth century history. e dependentpeoples, and the conversion of the dual monarchy into a federalunion composed of as many states as there are different nationsor well-defined ethnic groups composing the population of themonarchy. At the present time (1906) the strongest bond unitingthe different races of the monarchy is the great popularity of thereigning sovereign. The Emperor Francis Joseph has endearedhimself in a remarkable degree to his people, and so long as helives his personal ascendancy, in spite of the present strainedrelations between him and his Magyar subjects,
. Outlines of nineteenth century history. e dependentpeoples, and the conversion of the dual monarchy into a federalunion composed of as many states as there are different nationsor well-defined ethnic groups composing the population of themonarchy. At the present time (1906) the strongest bond unitingthe different races of the monarchy is the great popularity of thereigning sovereign. The Emperor Francis Joseph has endearedhimself in a remarkable degree to his people, and so long as helives his personal ascendancy, in spite of the present strainedrelations between him and his Magyar subjects, will doubtlessinsure the integrity of the monarchy. 75. The International Phase of Austro-Hungarian Questions. —The affairs of Austria-Hungary are almost as much a matter of 2 The census of 1900 gives the total number of inhabitants of Hungary as 19,254,.559, of whom only 7,426,730 are returned as being of Hungarian race. 3 The total population of Austria according to the census of 1900 was 26,150,708;the number of Germans, 9,170, BIBLIOGRAPHY 75 European concern as are those of the Ottoman Empire. This isso for the reason that most of the ethnic groups within the mon-archy, with the exception of the Magyars, who constitute a com-pact and complete nation, are merely detached areas of largerbodies of kindred peoples in adjoining lands, and that there is atendency in these small groups to gravitate towards the largermasses of their kindred in these neighboring countries. Thus theAustrian Germans are drawn towards the new German Empire ;the Italians in Trieste and the Tyrol towards the Italian king-dom ; the Rumanians of Transylvania towards the principality ofRumania; the Slavs of the South towards the Balkan Slav states,and the Slavs of the North, in times of special discontent, towardsRussia. Or perhaps it would be more exact to say that these neigh-boring states covet these Austro-Hungarian lands of kindred raceand await an opportunity to annex them. Hence they are all
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