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"...boarded a ship in Austria ..." ?

by MulliMulli 7y ago

saagarjha 7y ago
Austria-Hungary, perhaps?
TomK32 7y ago
Triest was a Austrian port back then.
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noncoml 7y ago
Europe in 1890: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_European_history#/media/File%3AEuropa_1890.jpg https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_European_histo...
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  So Austria had a sea coast along the Adriatic Sea (back of the "Boot of Italy") where now we have Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia Herzegovina [,and part of Montenegro?].
  - HarryHirsch 7y ago
    After WW1 Austria lost its ports on the Mediterranean, those went to Yugoslawia, it lost the industrial areas and coal mines, those went to Czechoslowakia and Poland and it lost its agricultural areas, those went to Hungary. Any questions why the administrative hydrocephalus in Vienna wasn't commercially viable any more, and why the Anschluß was considered a good idea by so many Austrians?
jhbadger 7y ago
The same thing confuses people watching "The Sound of Music" -- how could Captain von Trapp be an Austrian naval officer? But although the musical isn't completely historically accurate, that part is true -- he was a U-boat captain in the Austrian navy in WWI when it wasn't a landlocked country.
the-dude 7y ago
Ever heard of rivers? Those thingies that flow to the seas?
jcranmer 7y ago
Austria, as a part of Austria-Hungary, was a much larger country before WWI than it is now. The borders of Austria-Hungary included the entirety of the modern countries of Austria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina. In addition, it contained hunks of the countries surrounding it. The belt of land in modern Poland and Ukraine along the axis from Katowice to Ternopil were all in Austria, while the region of modern Romania northwest of the mountain range was all in Hungary. Serbia north of Belgrade and Sabac (along the Danube-Sava river boundary) was Hungarian. The triangular region in northern Italy of Sudtirol was Austrian, as was the region around Trieste. Internally, modern Czechia, Slovenia, the southern coast of Croatia (Dalmatia, specifically), the peninsular coast of Croatia, and most of the aforementioned territories were Austrian. Modern Slovakia, Hungary, the rest of Croatia, and the extra portions of Serbia and Romania were all part of Hungary. Bosnia was in neither Austria nor Hungary.

"...boarded a ship in Austria ..." ?

saagarjha 7y ago

Austria-Hungary, perhaps?

TomK32 7y ago

Triest was a Austrian port back then.

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noncoml 7y ago

Europe in 1890: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_European_history#/media/File%3AEuropa_1890.jpg https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_European_histo...

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
So Austria had a sea coast along the Adriatic Sea (back of the "Boot of Italy") where now we have Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia Herzegovina [,and part of Montenegro?].
- HarryHirsch 7y ago
  After WW1 Austria lost its ports on the Mediterranean, those went to Yugoslawia, it lost the industrial areas and coal mines, those went to Czechoslowakia and Poland and it lost its agricultural areas, those went to Hungary. Any questions why the administrative hydrocephalus in Vienna wasn't commercially viable any more, and why the Anschluß was considered a good idea by so many Austrians?

jhbadger 7y ago

The same thing confuses people watching "The Sound of Music" -- how could Captain von Trapp be an Austrian naval officer? But although the musical isn't completely historically accurate, that part is true -- he was a U-boat captain in the Austrian navy in WWI when it wasn't a landlocked country.

the-dude 7y ago

Ever heard of rivers? Those thingies that flow to the seas?

jcranmer 7y ago

Austria, as a part of Austria-Hungary, was a much larger country before WWI than it is now. The borders of Austria-Hungary included the entirety of the modern countries of Austria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina. In addition, it contained hunks of the countries surrounding it. The belt of land in modern Poland and Ukraine along the axis from Katowice to Ternopil were all in Austria, while the region of modern Romania northwest of the mountain range was all in Hungary. Serbia north of Belgrade and Sabac (along the Danube-Sava river boundary) was Hungarian. The triangular region in northern Italy of Sudtirol was Austrian, as was the region around Trieste. Internally, modern Czechia, Slovenia, the southern coast of Croatia (Dalmatia, specifically), the peninsular coast of Croatia, and most of the aforementioned territories were Austrian. Modern Slovakia, Hungary, the rest of Croatia, and the extra portions of Serbia and Romania were all part of Hungary. Bosnia was in neither Austria nor Hungary.