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The "United States of Greater Austria" proposed by Aurel Popovici, 1906 |
Proposal for a federation of independent states based on ethnographic principles:
proposed by the Romanian nationalist Aurel C. Popovici in his book "Die Vereinigten Staaten von Groß-Österreich" [The United States of Greater Austria], Leipzig, 1906.
The names of the proposed federal states are given in German according to the map published in Popovici's book.
The solid red line show
the borders of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1906, the dashed grey line shows
the occupied territory of Bosnia-Hercegovina (annexed in 1908) which was not cosidered in the proposal.
See also the political map (1918) (1918) and the ethnographic map (1910) of Austria-Hungary,
and the map of the modern countries of Central Europe (1997).
(compare the ethnographic map in the Austro-Hungaria monarchy)
Deutsch-Österreich German-Austria (Language: predominantly German) | Deutsch-Böhmen German-Bohemia (Language: predominantly German) | Deutsch-Mähren German-Moravia (Language: predominantly German) | (mostly German) Enclaves |
Böhmen Bohemia (Language: predominantly Czech) | Slowakenland Slowakia (Language: predominantly Slovak) | West-Galizien West Galicia (Language: predominantly Polish) | Ost-Galizien East Galicia (Language: predominantly Ukrainian) |
Ungarn Hungary (Language: predominantly Hungarian) | Seklerland Szeklerland (Language: predominantly Hungarian) | Trentino Trentino (Language: predominantly Italian) | Triest Trieste (Language: predominantly Italian) |
Krain Carniola (Language: predominantly Slovenian) | Kroatien Croatia (Language: predominantly Croatian) | Woiwodina Vojvodina (Language: predominantly Serbian) | Siebenbürgen Transylvania (Language: predominantly Romanian) |