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TIL Franz Ferdinand was widely disliked in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His marriage to a woman without sufficient royal blood and his desire to give Slavs equal status by restructuring the empire into 3 kingdoms alienated Austrian conservatives and Hungarians, as well as pan-slavic nationalists.

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