The Slavs of the war zone . i-iilkai; ;ani, Montenegrin Peasants. [To face page 160. CHAPTER XI CROATIA : A LAND OF MANY COLOURS From the Tatra to the Black Mountam, from the Giant Alps to theUrals, resoiuid the words—Heaven for the Slavs. In spite of Magyar denial, Croatia is liistorically an independentkingdom, linked only to Hungary, as Hungary is linked to iVustria,through the person of the Hapsburg monarch. Its people arestill inspired by recollections of their independence in the eleventhcentury, and by later recollections of the victorious amiy led bythe Croatian patriot Jellac
The Slavs of the war zone . i-iilkai; ;ani, Montenegrin Peasants. [To face page 160. CHAPTER XI CROATIA : A LAND OF MANY COLOURS From the Tatra to the Black Mountam, from the Giant Alps to theUrals, resoiuid the words—Heaven for the Slavs. In spite of Magyar denial, Croatia is liistorically an independentkingdom, linked only to Hungary, as Hungary is linked to iVustria,through the person of the Hapsburg monarch. Its people arestill inspired by recollections of their independence in the eleventhcentury, and by later recollections of the victorious amiy led bythe Croatian patriot Jellachich in 1848. They are filled withhopes of national liberty and with ambition ; they wish to expandnorthwards into Hungary, westwards into Cisleithan Austria,and on the south to absorb Dalmatia and Bosnia. Before thepresent war began, their main object was to substitute Triahsmfor Dualism in the Austrian Empire. It is more than probablethat most of them are now hoping for national freedom outsideof the Austro-Hungarian dominions. The Austro-Hunga
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