!!!Slawenkongresse

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").

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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.


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