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Entry: Puritans or Habsburgs Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/puritans_or_habsburgs#1278 Post contents: I would point out that when the author states that the peoples were united by the German language, they were in actuality not united by language. The Hungarians spoke Hungarian, and the ethnic groups of the former Yugoslavia spoke Serbo-Croatian, and the other groups had their own languages. So much for this theory of a common language. OK. Yes, the elite were required to know German. But this, along with some buildings that resembled each other and good 'ole Viennese cooking were not enough "glue" to hold the empire together. But isn't Germany in the guise of the EU trying to do this all over again? Sent at: 2008 05 16