Proposed States From Aurel Popovici
The idea came from Hungarian revolutionary Lajos Kossuth, who proposed to transform the Habsburg Empire into a so-called "Danubian State", a federal state with autonomous regions. The following territories were supposed to become states of the federation after the reform. The majority ethnic group within each territory is also listed.
- Deutsch-Österreich (German-Austria, present-day Austria, the Italian province of South Tyrol, and the southern part of the present-day Czech Republic, ethnic German)
- Deutsch-Böhmen (German-Bohemia, northwestern part of present-day Czech Republic, ethnic German)
- Deutsch-Mähren (German-Moravia, northeastern part of present-day Czech Republic, ethnic German)
- Böhmen (Bohemia, southern and central part of present-day Czech Republic, ethnic Czech)
- Slowakenland (Slovakia, ethnic Slovak)
- West-Galizien (West Galicia, part of present-day Poland, ethnic Pole)
- Ost-Galizien (East Galicia, part of present-day Ukraine and Poland, ethnic Rusyn and Ukrainian)
- Ungarn (Hungary, present-day Hungary, southern Slovakia, northern Vojvodina, ethnic Magyar)
- Seklerland (Székely Land, part of present-day Romania, ethnic Magyar)
- Siebenbürgen (Transylvania, the Banat, plus Bukovina - part of present-day Romania and Ukraine, ethnic Romanian)
- Trento (Trentino, part of present-day Italy, ethnic Italian)
- Triest (Trieste and Gorizia, parts of present-day Italy, western Istria, part of present-day Croatia and Slovenia, ethnic Italian)
- Krain (Carniola, present-day Slovenia and southern Carinthia, ethnic Slovene)
- Kroatien (Croatia, present-day Croatia, Srem in present-day Serbia and Boka Kotorska in present-day Montenegro, ethnic Croatian)
- Woiwodina (Vojvodina, part of present-day Serbia and Croatia, ethnic Croatian and Serb)
In addition, a number of mostly German-speaking enclaves in eastern Transylvania, the Banat and other parts of Hungary, southern Slovenia, large cities (such as Prague, Budapest, Lviv and others) and elsewhere were to have autonomy within the respective territory.
“The great origin, language, customs and mentality diversity of different nationalities requires, for the whole Empire of the Habsburgs, a certain state form, which can guarantee that not a single nationality will be threatened, obstructed or offended in its national political life, in its private development, in its national pride, in one word – in its way of feeling and living”
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