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| | The Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The Habsburg Court pressured Chancellor Metternich to step down in order to placate the subject nationalities, and he resigned on March 13, 1848, fleeing to England. |
 | | Hungary, at just over half the land area of the Empire, at the time was a bit like the American south of the time: agricultural, backwards economically, controlled by a reactionary elite, and soon to fight a war of independence that was a lost cause from the beginning due to ethnic, linguistic, and religious splits. |
 | | On the Hungarian National Assembly in Sremski Karlovci in May, 1848, Serbs, aided by the Romanians and Croats, declared the unification of the regions of Srijem, Banat, Backa, Baranja and one part of the Military frontier into the province of Vojvodina and wanted to unite with the Turkish autonomus state of Serbia. |
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