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As we exit the 19th Century and enter the 20th, a new younger generation of political leaders will emerge in Croatia. Their first goal? To bring down the hated Khuen-Héderváry.
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The Habsburg acquisition of Bosnia in 1878 brought with it significant ethnic polarisation in Croatia – polarisation which the Hungarians were happy to exploit.
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After the return of party politics to Croatia in the 1860s, two opposing currents led by two very different men would emerge. On one side, a wealthy bishop will be the first to dream of a united Yugoslavia, while his great rival, a firebrand lawyer, will demand the national glory and expansion of Croatia alone.
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After the victory of Counter-Revolution in 1849, the new Austrian regime built up a centralised autocratic Empire run from Vienna. But it would only last a decade before the cracks began to re-appear.
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After Jelačić invaded Hungary, the Revolution began to fall apart.
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The Great European Year of Revolution would be the greatest crisis the Habsburg Empire had faced since Napoleon, and Croatia would be far from exempt from the upheaval. Also, the birth of Vojvodina.
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In the decades after the great upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars, a young Croatian named Ljudevit Gaj will launch the first movement for a united South Slavic state.
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In the 1780s, Emperor Joseph II attempted in vain to single-handedly drag the Habsburg Empire into the modern era.
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Today, we introduce the Habsburg Empire and take a tour round it.
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Today, we open the final chapter in the Balkans before the Great War, taking a tour round what’s left of Ottoman territory in Europe before seeing how the Balkan nation-states competed over it.
Theme Music – “Charlotte” by Damiano Baldoni, licensed under CC BY 4.0