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Oct 4, 2021 · In 1867, following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (Ausgleich), the Habsburg Monarchy was reorganized into a constitutional monarchy, divided into two parts: Cisleithania (or the “Austrian” part of the monarchy), which included Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Tyrol, Voralberg, Salzburg, Carniola, Dalmatia, Bohemia, Moravia ...
Cisleithania, officially The Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council, was the northern and western part of Austria-Hungary, the Dual Monarchy created in the Compromise of 1867—as distinguished from Transleithania.
Cisleithania. The Imperial Council was a bicameral body: the upper house was the House of Lords (German: Herrenhaus), and the lower house was the House of Deputies (German: Abgeordnetenhaus).
Transleithania referred to the lands of the Hungarian Crown (the historical Kingdom of Hungary together with Croatia and Slavonia and the free city of Fiume). Literally these unofficial names meant ‘the lands on this side of’ or ‘the lands beyond’ the River Leitha, which marked the historical border between Austria and Hungary.
The two partner states were quite different. The Austrian half of the empire, often referred to by the unwieldy name ‘Cisleithania’ (territory on this side of the Leitha, the historical border river separating Lower Austria and Hungary), consisted of seventeen historical crown lands.
Many texts refer to the non-Hungarian ("Austrian") half part of Austria-Hungary as Cisleithania—because most of its territory lay west (or to "this" side, from an Austrian perspective) of the Leitha river (although Galicia to the north-east also counted as "Austrian").
GERMANY'S ATTITUDE TO DISINTEGRATION OF CISLEITHANIA for the expansion of the Czech national movement was attributed exclusively to the Austrian government's laxity. The reports reflected the indignation of the writers that most Czechs were blaming the Germans for the prolongation of the war. 'The im-
