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Dual Monarchy

American  

noun

  1. the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.


Dual Monarchy British  

noun

  1. the monarchy of Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1918

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Photograph: Imagno/Getty Images "My strongest experience was the War and the destruction of my fatherland, the only one I ever had, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary."

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2013

His chief claim to notice before the War was his marriage to Countess Katinka Andrassy, a daughter of Count Julius Andrassy, last Foreign Minister of the Dual Monarchy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within 360 days he had not only retrieved the losses of Caporetto but shattered the Austro-Hungarian armies and forced the Dual Monarchy to sign an abject separate peace on Nov. 4, 1918.

From Time Magazine Archive

His objective, fathered by Masaryk: to form an independent republic amid the dissolution of the Habsburgs' crumbling Dual Monarchy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Austro-Hungarian monarchy is very often called unofficially the Dual Monarchy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various