One of the most immediate and obvious changes that WWI brought about was the collapse of longstanding empires. But what ...

AUSTRIA.; Opening of the Hungarian Diet. Share full article. Dec. 30, 1865. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 30, 1865, Page 1 Buy Reprints.

Yugoslavia, once a unified country in Southeastern Europe, has long since disintegrated into six independent nations. The ...

Kremlin propagandists have suggested on state TV that Russian authorities create a new empire in Europe. The idea was floated by Vladimir Solovyov, one of the most well-known figures in Kremlin ...

December 7 and 8, 1912: Austria-Hungary Escalates, Kaiser Convenes War Council. Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. As 1912 drew to a close, Europe seemed to be ...

In February 1853 a Hungarian nationalist had threatened to cut his throat with a kitchen knife. The scare was so lasting that Franz Josef tried not to expose his neck again. Heir to the empire ...

Austro-Hungarian Empire Sergey Kohl / Shutterstock.com This extremely ethnically diverse country existed for only 51 years from 1867-1918 but during that time caused a lot of trouble.

In 1914, the Habsburgs ruled an empire that encompassed not just Austria and Hungary, but Bohemia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, large parts of Poland and Romania, and even some of Italy.

If the Austro-Hungarian Empire still existed, Ferdinand Habsburg would be next ... who stood aside as the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary in November 1918 on the day World War I ended.

The Austria-Hungarian Empire. The Russian Empire. The Ottoman Empire. Image source, ALAMY. Image caption, British soldiers using a Vickers machine gun in the trenches during WW1. Back to top.

Had Austria-Hungary’s leaders acted quickly, this prediction might’ve proved right, and the ensuing conflict between the empire and Serbia might have remained a local one.