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Austro-German Alliance: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Dual Alliance
Date 1879
Participants Austria-Hungary • German Empire
Context Triple Alliance

Key People

Otto von Bismarck in military uniform and cap, with a mustache, facing slightly to the side in a black-and-white portrait taken around 1880.
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Gyula, Count Andrássy.
Gyula, Count Andrássy
prime minister of Hungary