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Austro-Hungarian Jews were granted legal equality.	1
Austro-Hungarian Compromise (Ausgleich)
of 1867 was developed by Francis Déak and recognized two independent states united by common interests and the person of the monarch, thus establishing a dual monarchy. The compromise stipulated that if Austria violated the political independence of Hungary by trying to govern both states as a federation, Hungary had the right to declare its own independence from Austrian rule. But the problem of Slavs and other minorities remained unresolved.	2

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