The dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy under the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty, a major continental power and the third-largest state in Europe before its collapse after World War I.
Dissolved in October–November 1918 following defeat in World War I; the Hungarian Parliament unilaterally terminated the dual union on 31 October 1918, and the empire fragmented into the successor states of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Romania (which gained Transylvania).
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Austria-Hungary — the shape you scrub through changes in 1867 · 1890.
The current standard history of the Habsburg monarchy across its Austrian and Austro-Hungarian phases for the general reader.
Covers the Dual Monarchy directly through to 1918; the standard one-volume account.
Narrative of the empire's decline culminating in the Austro-Hungarian collapse of 1918.
Three generations serving a Habsburg empire sliding toward 1914.