‘The Habsburg Empire that ruled over Austria-Hungary was a patchwork of many different regions and peoples’. Analyse.

It was a patchwork because:

(i) It included the Alpine region of Tyrol, Austria and Sudetenland - as well as Bohemia, where the aristrocracy was predominantly German-Speaking.

(ii) It also included the Italian-speaking provinces of Lombardy and Venetia.

(iii) In Hungary, half of the population spoke Magyar while the other half spoke a variety of dialects. In Galicia, the aristrocracy spoke Polish.