Austria Ottoman report
The Austrian Empire had long been declining. This was due to a number of reasons. Most important were the different nationalities within the Empire. The Germans were the minority however they were in control of the government and all other important political positions. The Magyars, or the Hungarians, were powerless, and they were the larger group of disenfranchised people. The Italians in the west had become ceded after the war with Prussia and Italy. The Slavic groups in the north and south were very unorganized, and still didn't have any rights. The principle political figure in Austria was Prince Klemens von Metternich. He worked to crush all revolutionaries. He failed, and a revolution still occurs in 1848. Austria would have disappeared except for the divisions in the revolutionary peoples. They each wanted much different goals. At the end of this, Emperor Francis Joseph came to power. Under his reign, Austria lost Lombardy in 1859, and lost Venetia and control of the German States after the Seven Weeks War with Prussia. After this war, the Magyars were very close to dividing. To stop this Joseph met with Francis Deak, a Hungarian leader.
In The Crimean War, from 1854 to 1856 Russia fought Turkish forces to win access to the Mediterranean Sea. The British helped the Turks to keep the current trade routes, and the French fought to keep a balance in the already shaky Balkan area. During this war, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania fought for their freedom from their oppressors. There were not enough Turkish troops to suppress all of these revolutions, so the people were massacred. Ottoman Empire was known as the Powder Keg in the Balkans because it was made of very different groups including Europeans, Africans, and Muslims. They lost Greece in 1829, and by 1850 Moldavia and Wallachia were lost to Russia, and Egypt Arabia and other Balkan areas had gained their autonomy. The empire was just waiting for its demise. The problems eventually forced the Russians to have the Congress of Berlin, to revise the treaty. This was revised so that Ottomans kept one third of the area, Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania won independence. Britain gained Cyprus, and Austria-Hungary gained Bosnia and Herzegovine. This satisfied few, including Ottomans, Balkans, and Russians. Now, the unsatisfied Balkan p
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Approximate Word count = 781
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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