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**oscilsoda** · 09-02-2006, 12:32 PM

It's very hard to say. I think that it could have lasted for as long as Hungarians were in it, I don't see north or south Slavs trying for independence alone. Of course, they would have demanded greater autonomy, which would likely have been granted.

If the Hungarians decided to go independent, then all hell would break loose as Croats would definitely do the same, and others perhaps. Given that Europe was tied down in a string of alliances, every imaginable way of breaking up AH could trigger WWI, like events in Bosnia have done historically.

09-02-2006, 12:32 PM	#1
oscilsoda Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 431 Senior Member	Austria-Hungary It's very hard to say. I think that it could have lasted for as long as Hungarians were in it, I don't see north or south Slavs trying for independence alone. Of course, they would have demanded greater autonomy, which would likely have been granted. If the Hungarians decided to go independent, then all hell would break loose as Croats would definitely do the same, and others perhaps. Given that Europe was tied down in a string of alliances, every imaginable way of breaking up AH could trigger WWI, like events in Bosnia have done historically.
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