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Slav Congresses: following the first Slav Congress of 1848 a second Slav Congress was held in Vienna in August 1866. Representatives of the Slavs were F. Palacky and his son-in-law, F. L. Rieger; the Croats were represented by Bishop J. G. Strossmayer von Diakovar; the Polish representative was Count A. Goluchowski; the Slovenes were not asked to take part. The declared aim of the second Slav Congress was to create a federation of ancient Austrian, Inner-Austrian, Bohemian, Hungarian-Croat and Polish countries with a General Diet in each country ranking above the individual diets, and an "Imperial Congress" ("Reichskongress") responsible for the common affairs of these countries. Moreover, each country was to have its own ministry with a court chancellor, the five court chancellors being members of the "Imperial Ministry" ("Reichsministerium").

After the Compromise of 1867, a delegation of Czechs, Croats, Ruthenes (Ukrainians) and Slovenes demonstrated their pan-Slavistic attitude by visiting a Slav ethnographic exhibition in Russia on May 15, 1867. F. L. Rieger submitted Czech constitutional law to Emperor Napoleon III and thus involved France in the Nationality Question of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.