Austro-Hungarian

British  

adjective

1. of or relating to the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918)

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Example Sentences

A century of European diplomacy struggled and mostly failed to contain the tensions and wars that broke up the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires into dozens of successor states.

From The Wall Street Journal

In “Radetzky March” Joseph Roth uses the ascent and decline of the Trotta family as a kind of lineal metonym for the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, though the novel is as much about generational dynamics as it is about history and historiography.

From The Wall Street Journal

The prince led a delegation of 120 Africans who travelled through the Austro-Hungarian empire and posed for six months in a show that was visited by up to 10,000 people a day.

From Barron's

They say the Railway Authority's plan to dismantle this iconic industrial landmark – erected in 1902 during the heyday of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - is entirely unnecessary.

From BBC

There were several thousand German and Austro-Hungarian internees from World War I. However, by the time World War II started, there was a general consensus that the wartime hysteria and internment policy of World War I was really inappropriate, and that it inflated people’s sense of the dangerousness of Germans and Austro-Hungarians based on their ancestry.

From Slate