Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire (1804-1867) was an empire in Central Europe. The formal name used for the entity was The Kingdoms and Lands represented in the Imperial Council ("Die im Reichsrat vertretenen Königreiche und Länder").

In 1867 as a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, Hungary and its territories were broken out of the empire and given a separate autonomy, where it would be governed by it's own government in Budapest, without being subject to the government in Vienna. The Austrian emperor would also be king of Hungary, supreme commander of their joint military forces and responsible for foreign policy. The result was a new state, which was a dual monarchy consisting of two components, on one hand a continuation for the remainder of the Austrian Empire, and on the other hand the separate Kingdom of Hungary.