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that is you've got at least, depending how you count them,
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fifteen major nationalities within the Empire,
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and that although German is the language of the Empire that Austria-Hungary,
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these ethnic minorities and their claims for national independence exist
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as a perpetual destabilizing factor in Austria-Hungarian politics,
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particularly when Russia, which has always dreamt of constantinople
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and controlling the access to the Black Sea,
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is fanning the flames of nationalism, of pan-Slavism,
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but also of nationalism within these various states,
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which destabilizes, potentially, the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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And the Austro-Hungarian Empire became the dual monarchy,
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before this course starts, but in 1867.