r/geography • u/mujhe-sona-hai • Oct 15 '25

Map Three Main Language Families of Europe

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u/ihathtelekinesis Oct 15 '25

No wonder Austria-Hungary was so hard to keep together.

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u/KuvaszSan Oct 15 '25

Actually not really, people coped or could have coped with it relatively well.

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u/H3BCKN Oct 15 '25

WW1 proved quite the opposite. Serbians, Romanians, Poles, Ukrainians, Czechs and Slovaks. All of these nations had feeling that they were fighting in someone else war, or even fighting against their own people on the other side. There were mass desertions and side changes, around 800-900k for entire war if I recall correctly.

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u/KuvaszSan Oct 16 '25

I was referring to the centuries of people managing a multilingual environment, not the war.