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Time to Split

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Post by VeldesX » 19 May 2006, 16:52

Split / Spalato, is the correct answer! I knew those ruins would do the trick! Diocletian's palace was the downtown and marketplace section for centuries.

Annexing Dalmatia from Zara to at least Spalato was a stated war aim of Italy's, and it suffered bombardment from the Italian navy on at least one occasion.

After the war ended, "Liberation of the Irredeemed cities of Fiume, Zara, and Spalato" became a majour theme among the more disillusioned Italian nationalists. Gabrielle d'Annunzio's men who'd helped him to seize control of Fiume spent a long time trying to raise "Red Shirts" to storm Spalato and take it from the Jugoslavians. But the rise of the "Black Shirts" put an end to their scheming. In the end, Mussolini agreed to drop all claims to Spalato in exchange for a deal on Fiume. Zara's Italian area had already been set at 110 square miles of Dalmatian territory. Fiume's was set by treaty at the northern half of the city in 1923. Spalato was dumped.

Until, of course, April 1941, when Italian troops landed on the coast of Dalmatia, and set the frontier between Italy and the Croatian state a few miles south of Spalato. This was officially an Italian city until the Germans withdrew in November 1944 (or was it October?).

Anyhoo, its back to You, Robb.

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ps, Hmm, nobody else was playing. Is the quiz unpopular these days?

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#1232

Post by Robb » 20 May 2006, 10:19

Hi VeldesX,
ps, Hmm, nobody else was playing. Is the quiz unpopular these days?
(And neither of us come from Europe! - I am assuming CT is Connecticut??)

Next question - a who am I?

I am mostly remembered for my election reform of 1882, which reduced the minimum tax base required for males above 24 to vote to 5 guilders. Before this reform, the tax base was set locally, but usually at a considerably higher level. Who am I?

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Taaffe

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Post by VeldesX » 25 May 2006, 17:01

Image

Might I be EDUARD Graf von TAAFFE?

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#1234

Post by Robb » 26 May 2006, 16:40

You are indeed Count Edward Franz Joseph von Taafe

Over to you now.

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Special Title for the Banat

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Post by VeldesX » 26 May 2006, 20:34

Right! Let's see. What's the Kaiser's special title for his possession of the Banat, which could be both irritating for the Hungarians (especially after the Ausgleich) and annoying for Serbia?

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#1236

Post by VeldesX » 02 Jun 2006, 16:34

No takers? The title also the modern name of Serbia's part of Banat.

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Post by Robb » 04 Jun 2006, 14:02

Hi


I found this in Wiipedia:

In November 1849, by a decision of the Austrian emperor, this Serbian region was transformed into the new Austrian crown land known as Voivodship of Serbia and Tamiš Banat. It consisted of Banat, Bačka and Syrmia, excluding southern parts of these regions which were part of the Military Frontier. An Austrian governor seated in Temeschwar ruled the area, and the title of voivod belonged to the emperor himself.

The full title of the emperor was "Grand Voivod of the Voivodship of Serbia" (German: Großwoiwode der Woiwodschaft Serbien).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vojvodina

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Woiwodschaft Serbien

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Post by VeldesX » 05 Jun 2006, 21:04

Correct! (Though I hate Wikipedia, which seems to be controlled by Google.) I dispute its claim that Syrmia was included as part of the Woivodschaft, since it has been traditionally part of the kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. I doubt that changed after the revolution. The Ban of Croatia, General Jellacic, was not likely to support the disintegration of his personal domain, not when the Hungarian revolutionaries under Kossuth attempted to do the same in 1848-1849. He in fact supervised the first reintegration of some military frontiers back into direct control by the Croatian civil authorities, though I do not have a map at hand to show when Syrmia was included in this integration.

Yer next!

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Post by Robb » 06 Jun 2006, 12:59

A Who am I?

When the war started in 1914 my corps became part of the 2nd army along the river Save. The campaign as whole was a failure but the 4th corps archived a successful relief attack in support of the 5th army. In September 1914 my corps and I were transported to the Russian theatre where we took part on the attack of Wereszyca on the 8th and 9th of September 1914. On the 9th of September I additionally took over command of the 7th corps and with both corps I was involved in the battles against much superior Russian forces near Lemberg.

In October 1914 I was able to capture the important Uzsok Pass and finally took Turka on the 10th of October. The successful advance was stopped in the main by the superiority of the Russian forces. For my successful leadership he was honored with the award of the Grand cross of the Order of the Iron Crown with war decoration on the 5th of October 1914.

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Karl Tersztyánszky von Nádas

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Post by Glenn2438 » 06 Jun 2006, 13:50

Hi Robb,

General der Kavallerie Karl Tersztyánszky von Nádas.

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Post by Robb » 07 Jun 2006, 12:43

Hi Glenn,


That was quick! (If your link didn't contain such excellent information, I wouldn't post questions from it! - makes it too easy for you :) Over to you now.

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Colonel

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Post by Glenn2438 » 07 Jun 2006, 17:58

Thanks Robb,

who is this Regimental Proprietor (Inhaber)?

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Clue

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Post by Glenn2438 » 08 Jun 2006, 20:35

Ok chaps,

clue 1: It is a Dragoon Regiment and he is a Prussian.

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Clue

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Post by Glenn2438 » 11 Jun 2006, 19:27

Clue 2,

a Hohenzollern Prince born in 1837.

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#1245

Post by Robb » 12 Jun 2006, 11:49

Hi Glenn,

Would it be Emil David Edler von Rohnfeld?

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