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The Bohemian-Austrian Commonwealth

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Österreichisch-Böhmischesreich
Main Section on Empire/Commonwealth Meanings under "History"

Das Böhmischreich

Wspólnota Czesko-Austriacka



Flag

Coat of Arms



Motto
"Pravda Vitezi za Všech Okolností"
"Truth Wins at all times"


Anthem
"Svatováclavský Chorál"
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Location


Population 75,045,010
Density 124 per Km2


Capital Praha (Prague)
Largest City Vienna (Wien)


Official Language
German, Czech, Polish


National Language
German, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Italian


Ethnic Groups
German/Austrian
Polish
Czech/Bohemian
Hungarian
Slovenian


Religion
Roman Catholicism
Bohemian Reformed Protestantism
Slavic Orthodoxy


Demonym
Bohemian, Austrian
Polish, German, Hungarian (Depends on area of residence)


Government: Totalitarian Dictatorship

- Supreme Emperor Dietrich Zimmermann



Establishment
Bohemia - 14 March 1456
Austria - 30 June 996
The First Commonwealth - 2 October 1779
The Second Commonwealth - 27 April 1918
Communist Provisional Government - 5 May 1945
Allied/US Occupation - 10 June 1945
The Third Commonwealth - 17 January 1946
The Dictatorship, Österreichisch-Böhmischesreich - 20 July 1954


Land Area 630,100 km2


Elevation
Highest Point: Mountain Grossglockner
Lowest Point: Elba River Delta


Currency Peníze


Time Zone Central European Time Zone, Eastern European Time Zone
(UTC)


Date Format DD-MM-YY


Drives on the Right


Calling code UTC+ B01:00


ISO 3166 Code y168s


Internet TLD .eu.com/org/edu/net..etc

Österreichisch-Böhmischesreich


Österreichisch-Böhmischesreich, commonly called Bohemia, The Commonwealth, or Międzymorze, is a Republican Dictatorship in Europe. It is bordered on the east by Ukraine and Romania, on the south by Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy, on the west by Switzerland, Germany, and The Free City of Dresden, and on the north by Poland. The Commonwealth has an estimated population of 75 to 76 million people. The Commonwealth comprises of 7 Autonomous Regions, each with underlying provinces that make up a total of 232. The Commonwealth is revoked of membership from the United Nations, NATO, The World Trade Organization, and has a close relationship with Russia, and is not a member but allied to CSTO.

History

Main article: History of The Commonwealth

Okay, so I'm not going to get into the hefty details about the entire history of Austria then the entire history of Bohemia on top of that. I'm gonna just start from the year 1644 (You'll see why it's important), and go from there. I'm going to skip over some things, so I don't have to spend more than 2 hours on this one section

Twas the year 1644, and across Europe there were massive changes being undertaken. The Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth had recently won a stunning victory against Sweden, and Portugal was desprately trying to gain it's freedom from Spain. In Central Europe, The Kingdoms of Austria and Bohemia were quickly becoming closer allies, fighting a war against Bavaria and Saxony side by side. It was the beginning of a new age. King Kristian of Bohemia was leading massive campaigns across the area, seizing Silesia from Poland, Slovakia from Hungary, and snippets of land from Saxony. Austria meanwhile was busy getting down to the dirty work expanding that Hapsburg Line...hehe. Fast-Forward a couple decades to 1710. The expanding Ottoman Empire was at the doorstep of Austria and Hungary, and had recently beat back both the Russians and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in a series of devastating wars. Bohemia, however, was doing better than ever before, and soon, with the help of Austria, began planning an all-out attack against Hungary, and to hopefully prevent the Ottomans from getting farther north. The attack was launched on 13 Haeunsed (Bohemian Calender was used until 1779, this month meaning August), 1749. As if planned, coincidentally the Poles decided the only way to remain a great power was to defeat it's weaker neighbors, and of course this meant Bohemia. Fighting a two-front was in 1750 wasn't something ANY nation would want to do, especially a smaller kingdom like Bohemia. Regardless, Bohemia did it anyway. They lead set up earthworks and defenses along the border with Poland, while at the same time paved the way for the Austrian army to capture Budapest just a few short years later in 1753. The Treaty of Koisce was signed in December of 1754 between Bohemia, Austria, and Hungary. Hungary was to become a semi-autonomous region of Austria, while Bohemia received full reparations for damages caused by the Hungarians. The King then turned his attention to Poland, and with the help of Sweden and Russia, began working their way through Poland. Troops began suffering from exhaustion on both sides, and the grueling warfare was a large load to carry first of all, but an outbreak of smallpox swept it's way through the army camps, killing around 250,000 men in total from both sides. A peace settlement was finally reached in 1756, in which Sweden gained the northern Baltic, Russia gained a small bit of Ukrainian lands, and Bohemia gained the rest of Lower Poland. Just a month later, another war started up between the French and the British, in which Bohemia and Austria joined the side of France. A joint Bohemian-Swedish attack on Prussia was launched. Bohemia would send their cavalry in through the south, and then have their infantry swing in from the east and press full on to Berlin. Sweden would land over 320,000 troops along the coast and begin pushing southward to meet the Bohemians in Berlin. Prussian infantrymen held their lines firmly, and the war would become a stalemate until the end of the war. Bohemia would have to cede Silesia and Saachern to Prussia. Sweden would cede parts of Denmark. King Harold's popularity suffered because of this, and he was soon overthrown by pro-Austrian nobles, and Albert Vitek became the next king. Around 1779, he wed Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. Bohemia and Austria were united into a personal union, and later that year a more centralized nation was developed, and the two nations formed The First Commonwealth, which included all of the modern-day lands minus the areas captured by Prussia, and large swathes of Northern Italy, and all of Romania. The Commonwealth played a large part in the Napoleonic Wars, defending the East from France, but Napoleon's genius tactics and strategy caused the Commonwealth's troops to fall back to Vienna, and in the resulting battle the entire army was nearly obliterated. French troops breezed through the rest of Austria, and created puppet states out of Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. When the war turned against France, Russian advances westward against France liberated The Commonwealth from French occupancy, and all former lands were restored in the Treaty of Paris. A series of failed attempts to colonize parts of North Africa were spread through the 1840s and 50s, and in 1862 The Commonwealth went to war with the Ottomans, in which Romania was "freed" and put under Ottoman Control after the Treaty of Bucharest. The latter part of the 1800s was filled with technological and social advances, and the doing away of middle ages and colonialist military doctrines. By the time 1914 rolled around, The Commonwealth was the 7th strongest nation on Earth, behind The Ottomans but ahead of Italy. When top generals in the German Empire launched a failed coup d'e etat, France took advantage of a weakened Germany and decided to invade to retake Alsace-Lorraine. Germany quickly executed these generals and launched a full mobilization of every man aged 16 to 50. Millions of French and German troops engaged in combat along the border, and in an attempt to regain Silesia and Saachern, The Commonwealth declared war on Germany. Much like France, The Commonwealth had a large fort/defense system running the border from Switzerland to Poland. After The Commonwealth declaring war on Germany, Italy came to the defense of their ally and declared war on The Commonwealth. The Ottomans then followed suit. To protect their "Lawful Interests" in the Middle East, Britain then declared war on the Ottomans, which caused Italy and Germany to declare war on Britain in retaliation. The Ottomans launched an invasion into The Balkans, and Serbia called on Russia for help. Russia was reluctant to join the war, but when The Commonwealth entered Bosnia and Serbia to catch the Ottomans, Russia declared war on both the Ottomans and the Commonwealth. This caused the French-Russian alliance to be severed, as they had declared war on France's ally. Russia was now fighting both sides, as chaos broke loose in Western Europe. Germany shoved their way through Belgium and rapidly pushed forward, outflanking the Allies as they rushed towards the coast. Trench lines were dug from Dunkirk to Strasbourg. On the Eastern Front, The Commonwealth was already attacking the Russians, and were winning. But on all other fronts, they were failing. The Italians were closing in on Vienna, and the Ottomans were getting close to Budapest. The German Army had around 350,000 troops advancing towards Prague. The Commonwealth soon surrendered to the Central Powers and Russia. The rest of the war was a stalemate, until the sinking of an American commerce ship caused the US to join the war. Soon Germany was being pushed back on all fronts. They fell first, followed by the Ottomans, and finally the Italians. The Allies then turned their attention to Russia, and then twisted Russia's hand into surrendering and giving up Ukraine, Poland, Finland, and the Baltic in order to fight the Communists. The Second Commonwealth is proclaimed. During the inter-war period, The Commonwealth along with other Eastern and Central European nations such as Poland, Bavaria, Crimea, and Finland form Mitttleuropa (Middle Europe, Centrezki Evrpoa in Czech) as a dual economic and military alliance. The Commonwealth, Bavaria, and Poland are the founding members. Squished between an ever-increasing nationalistic France, and a communist Soviet Union, several more nations join later in 1924 and '25, like Denmark, Belgium, and Sweden. In 1929, The Stock Market in New York crashes, sending ripple effects around the world. Mittleuropa is hit hardest of all, with millions falling into poverty and national debt soaring through the roof. Mittleuropa's Economic Sector is temporarily suspended, and through most of the 1930s there is unrelenting poverty across the globe. All except France, where the democratic government is overthrown and replaced with a dictatorship. This causes the UK, Spain, and The Netherlands to immediately declare war. The Military Government is removed and the democracy put back in place less than 6 months later. Meanwhile in Germany, an angry man with a silly moustache was rising to power in Germany. He soon became chancellor and sent Bavaria an ultimatum to either join or be invaded. Mittleuropan officials met in Munich to decide the fate of the alliance. Hitler, however, had other ideas. He marched his troops into Bavaria without resistance. And that was that. Throughout the rest of the thirties, Hitler began militarizing Germany and preparing for war. In 1937, he launched invasions of both Poland and The Commonwealth in order to retake lost lands from WWI. This caused France and The UK to declare war on Germany. World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people from more than 30 countries. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 70 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons in war. Japan, which aimed to dominate Asia and the Pacific, was at war with China by 1937, though neither side had declared war on the other. World War II is generally said to have begun on 7 September 1937, with the invasions of Poland and The bohemian-austrian commonwealth by Germany and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and the United Kingdom. From late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, and formed the Axis alliance with Italy and Japan. Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories of their European neighbours, Poland, The bohemian-austrian commonwealth, Finland, Romania and the Baltic states. Following the onset of campaigns in North Africa and East Africa, and the Fall of France in mid 1940, the war continued primarily between the European Axis powers and the British Empire. War in the Balkans, the aerial Battle of Britain, the Blitz, and the long Battle of the Atlantic followed. On 22 June 1941, the European Axis powers launched an invasion of the Soviet Union, opening the largest land theatre of war in history. This Eastern Front trapped the Axis, most crucially the German Wehrmacht, in a war of attrition. In December 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States as well as European colonies in the Pacific. Following an immediate U.S. declaration of war against Japan, supported by one from Great Britain, the European Axis powers quickly declared war on the U.S. in solidarity with their Japanese ally. Rapid Japanese conquests over much of the Western Pacific ensued, perceived by many in Asia as liberation from Western dominance and resulting in the support of several armies from defeated territories. The Axis advance in the Pacific halted in 1942 when Japan lost the critical Battle of Midway; later, Germany and Italy were defeated in North Africa and then, decisively, at Stalingrad in the Soviet Union. Key setbacks in 1943, which included a series of German defeats on the Eastern Front, the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy, and Allied victories in the Pacific, cost the Axis its initiative and forced it into strategic retreat on all fronts. In 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France, while the Soviet Union regained its territorial losses and turned toward Germany and its allies. During 1944 and 1945 the Japanese suffered major reverses in mainland Asia, in Central China, South China and Burma, while the Allies crippled the Japanese Navy and captured key Western Pacific islands. The war in Europe concluded with an invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, culminating in the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops, the execution of Adolf Hitler and the German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945. Following the Potsdam Declaration by the Allies on 26 July 1945 and the refusal of Japan to surrender under its terms, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August respectively. With an invasion of the Japanese archipelago imminent, the possibility of additional atomic bombings, the Soviet entry into the war against Japan and its invasion of Manchuria, Japan announced its intention to surrender on 15 August 1945, cementing total victory in Asia for the Allies. Tribunals were set up by the Allies, and war crimes trials were conducted in the wake of the war both against the Germans and against the Japanese. The Allies established occupation an administration in Germany. Germany became a neutral state, non-aligned with any political bloc. The latter was divided into western and eastern occupation zones controlled by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. A denazification programme in Germany led to the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg trials and the removal of ex-Nazis from power, although this policy moved towards amnesty and re-integration of ex-Nazis into West German society. Germany lost a quarter of its pre-war (1937) territory. By the 1950s, one-fifth of West Germans were refugees from the east. The Soviet Union also took over the Polish provinces east of the Curzon line, from which 2 million Poles were expelled; north-east Romania, parts of eastern Finland, and the three Baltic states were incorporated into the Soviet Union. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill states that "An Iron Curtain was decsending across Europe", with Soviets more occupying than liberating countries. This "Iron Curtain" stretched from the Eastern border of Poland through to Romania. The Soviets created puppet states out of Crimea, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, and Finland. Around 1952, a new alliance in addition to NATO was created among the former Mittleuropa nations, called The Eastern Alliance but only as an economic alliance. Just two years later, protests against the increasingly left-wing government under President Pal Telkei eventually turned into violent riots, and soon a full on revolution in The Commonwealth, which was recently reinstated after World War II. A coup d'e etat succeeded in ousting Telkei, and German-born Austrian politician Dietrich Zimmermann, who was a member of the Nazi Party, declared himself emperor of the "Österreichisch-Böhmischesreich" (Austro-Bohemian Empire) on July 20th. Then 30 year-old Zimmermann began torturing and executing political enemies, and placing his opponents in jail. Membership of NATO, TEA (The Eastern Alliance), and the UN Security Council was revoked. In 1964, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the authoritarian regime, Zimmermann launched an invasion of Yugoslavia. They easily breezed through, and would've kept going if both the UN and the Soviets hadn't threatened to intervene. A few years later in 1971, student protests in Vienna and Prague were brutally suppressed. In 1975, a Hungarian Independence Movement was brutally suppressed. In 1978, an attempted coup was brutally suppressed. For years, speaking out against the government could get you executed. Each year on July 20th, The Dictator would hold massive shows of strength with tanks and rockets and missiles and troops marching through the streets to celebrate the launch of the dictatorship. Nobody dared speak out against the totalitarian regime. In 1981, US President Ronald Reagan visited Vienna, and held a summit with Zimmermann, where Zimmermann began blabbing off about how America was the worst country in the world. Reagan got up and left right then in there, and Zimmermann chased after him with a pistol and attempted to assasinate him. Reagan escaped the country and later severed all diplomatic ties with The Dictatorship. In 1991, The Soviet Union collapsed. In 1993, Yugoslavia fell apart too. When Russia founded CSTO in 2002, Zimmermann was quick to join and became a leading voice along with Russia in the alliance. To this day, the aging dictator still brutally suppresses anyone who speaks out against him, and retains his racist views. Many sources site him as a modern-day Nazi, and is one of the most hated people in the West. When the dictator dies, many people are hopeful that The Commonwealth will be restored.

Pictures:


Bohemian Invasion of Poland, 1755


Bohemian-Polish War, 1749


Battle of Taatenleburg, 1759


Battle of Vienna, 1808


Battle of Lizzen, 1809


Battle of Semm, 1810


Battle of Miennesso, 1811


Second Battle of Vienna, 1812


Battle of Trent, 1813


Battle of Garvengrad, 1915


Soldiers in the trenches, 1916


Commonwealth Snipers in Poland, 1917


Troops in Moravia, 1917


Commonwealth Troops, 1937


Troops marching to the front lines to face Hitler, 1939


Military Parade celebrating start of dictatorship, 1954


Dictatorship Parade, 1955


Military Parade, 1957


Military Parade, 1975


Smaller Military Parade, 2016

Religion

Main article: Religion in The Commonwealth

The majority of Hungarians became Christian in the 11th century. The Commonwealth's first king, Saint Stephen I, took up Western Christianity, although his mother Sarolt was baptized into Eastern Christianity. Hungary remained predominantly Catholic until the 16th century, when the Reformation took place and, as a result, first Lutheranism and then soon afterwards Calvinism became the religion of almost the entire population. Protestants composed some 85-90% of the entire population, more than a half of the Hungarian population being part of the Calvinist confessing Reformed Church and a quarter of lutheran confessing Evangelical Church.

In the second half of the 16th century, however, the Catholic Habsburg Kings and Jesuits led a successful campaign of Counter-Reformation among the The Commonwealth. The Jesuits not only founded educational institutions, including Péter Pázmány Catholic University, the oldest university that still exists in Hungary, but also organized missions in order to promote popular piety.

Using both political and apologetic efforts, most of the High Nobility composing the Diet was already predominantly Catholic by 1640's, a process consolidated as the new reconquered estates were granted to the converted aristocracy, who supported in Counter-Reformation. Despite this, the lower nobility, the town burghers and the common people still retained a largely Protestant – specially Calvinist – identity, opposing the catholic German-likeness of the Habsburg courtly politics. Allied with the Constitutional Rights enforced by the Nobility and the military pressure of the Protestant Principality of Transylvania on the eastern border, Catholic Counter-Reformation achieved partial results compared to the other Habsburg-controlled possessions, like Spain and Bavaria, where Catholicism was restored to the status of the sole religion of the realm.

Some of the eastern parts of the country, especially around Debrecen (nicknamed "the Calvinist Rome"), still have significant Protestant communities. The Reformed Church in The Commonwealth is the second-largest church in The Commonwealth with 1,153,442 adherents as of 2011. The church has 1,249 congregations, 27 presbyteries, and 1,550 ministers. The Reformed Church supports 129 educational institutions and has 4 theological seminaries, located in Debrecen, Sárospatak, Pápa, and Budapest.

Lutheranism is the third main historical religion in The Commonwealth. It was introduced by Saxon settlers in the early 16th century, but after its brief efflorescence, the introduction of the Reformed Church and the Counter-Reformation made it almost non-existent amongst Hungarians up to the late 17th century. Later it was re-introduced through inward migration by Saxons and Slovaks. Today, the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hungary is a small minority in The Commonwealth today. Despite its relatively small number of adherents, it had a strong power and influence in internal politics since The Commonwealth's independence from the strongly Catholic Habsburg Empire.

The proportion of all Protestantism in The Commonwealth has decreased from around 27% in the early 20th century to about 16% in the early 21st century. Eastern Orthodoxy in Hungary has been the religion mainly of certain national minorities in the country, notably Romanians, Rusyns, Ukrainians, and Serbs. Hungary has also been the home of a sizable Armenian Catholic community. They worship according to the Armenian Rite, but they have united with the Catholic Church under the primacy of the Pope. Some of the Armenians in Hungary are adherents of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was legally recognized in The Commonwealth in June 1988 and its first meetinghouse in the country was dedicated in October of the following year by Emperor Zimmermann. In June 1990, The Commonwealth Budapest Mission was created, followed by the first stake in June 2006. The mission, its districts, and the Budapest Stake together contain twenty-two wards and branches serving approximately 5000 members.

Largest Cities

Main article: Largest Cities in The Commonwealth

Rank

City

City Population

PROVINCE/STATE

1

Prague

3,509,018

Bohemia

2

Vienna

3,124,102

Austria

3

Budapest

3,098,134

Hungary

4

Bratislava

2,909,910

Slovakia

5

Graz

2,878,769

Austria

6

Sesonburg

2,759,298

Austria

7

Eszencoipse

2,693,981

Hungary

8

Surenvia

2,691,999

Bohemia

9

Einsdcahct

2,601,001

Hungary

10

Vasivmov

2,598,981

Transylvania

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