Austro-Czech

After 1900 is it possible for the Austrians and Czechs to remain in the same country?

Bonus points for other parts/ethnic groups of the Austro-Hungarian empire being a part of the same nation.

However Hungary isn't allowed as part of the Union/nation.
 

yourworstnightmare

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I guess, no WW1, the Habsburgs get tired of the Hungarians and agrees to divide the empire between the Austrian and Hungarian half.

Though neither side would really be a very well functioning nation in the age of nationalism.
 
Difficult but not impossible. You have just avoid Wilsonian national home country ideology and get Czechs somehow accept being with Austria.

Best changes might be no WW1, neutral USA or victorious Central Powers. Then you might get Austro-Czechia. Another thing is how keep that united.
 
Not after 1900, but with a POD as late as 1870 possibly.

Off the top of my head Austria-Hungary had a population of 48 million in the 1910 Census of whom 12 million were Germans of whom 10 million were in the Austrian part and the rest in the Hungarian part.

Bohemia, Moravia and Austrian Silesia had a combined population of about 10 million of whom about 35% were Germans. I don't remember the statistics for Slovakia, but it did include at least a million Hungarians.

Therefore a relatively small change in the ethnic mix could produce a situation where the German minority in what is now the Czech Republic was large enough to prevent the creation of Czechoslovakia. So in 1919 Bohemia-Moravia-Austrian Silesia remain part of Austria, while Slovakia and Ruthenia become independent or remain part of Hungary.
 
Well... if Austria and Hungary agree to devolve the empire due to a crisis that prevents the dual monarchy from remaining united anymore, I think it's actually quite a plausible outcome if no external forces intervene. Slovakia is handed over to Hungary, Galicia-Lodomeria probably a puppet kingdom under a Habsburg, and then the Czechs of Bohemia-Moravia alone probably do not have the numbers to split from Austria, once they are no longer able to ally with the Slovaks. Austria could perhaps retain Croatia as well, or just give it over to Hungary with the exception of Dalmatia so it's not a bother, and pre-1908 Bosnia is not a problem.
 
From what I understand Franz Ferdinand was actually very popular in the Czech regions for marrying a Czech woman. So the two of them could act as a unifying symbol within a crisis that sees the rest of the empire fall. The United Kingdom of Austria-Bohemia could be a workable state. Although it would be a letdown to the Hapsburgs.
 

Cryostorm

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Yes, Austria-Hungary still collapses but Germany manages to eek out a status quo ante bellum in the west due to the United States not entering the war in 1917 and France's military mutinying after running out of money. At the treaty negotiations Germany agrees to give up all of its colonies to Britain as well as returning all land in the west back to its original controllers in exchange Germany is given free reign in Eastern Europe where it takes the areas of Bohemia, Austria and Slovenia as separate kingdoms under the empire while giving Galicia to rump Poland and making Slovakia, Hungary, and Croatia into satellite kingdoms.
 
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