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Lajos Kossuth
Lajos Kossuth, lithograph, 1849.
During his exile, after moderating his views on the question of nationalities, the Hungarian political leader Lajos Kossuth developed plans for a Danubian federation. He envisioned this union to include the following entities:
Kossuth discussed these plans with various circles, including the Moldavian and Serbian courts, though the proposals were never realized and were often considered by contemporaries to be unrealistic.1