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Austro-Slavism

19th century · 19th century

Austro-Slavism was a political programme of the Slav peoples of the Austrian Empire, especially the Czechs, which sought equal rights and autonomy for them within a federal Habsburg state rather than independence or union with Russia. Its leading advocate, the historian František Palacký, argued in 1848 that if Austria did not exist it would have to be invented.

Austro-Slavism
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Austro-Slavism. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/austro-slavism
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