Question

Why do we say that austria hungary was a patchwork of many nations?

Answer 1

The Habsburg Empire ruled over the Alpine regions of Tyrol, Austria and Sudetenland as well as the plains of Bohemia. It also had the Italian-speaking provinces of Venetia and Lombardy and the Polish-speaking province of Galicia. While German was spoken by the aristocracy in Bohemia, Magyar and many other dialects were spoken in Hungary. There were also a variety of ethnic groups which practised peasantry—the Bohemians and Slovaks in the north, Slovenes in Carniola, Croats in the south and Romans in the east. Hence, it can be said that ‘the Hapsburg Empire that ruled over Austria–Hungary was a patchwork of many different regions and peoples’.