The Archduchy of Austria continued to exist as a constituent crown land (Kronland) within the empire, although it was divided into Upper and Lower Austria for some purposes.
German South Moravia was historically an integral part of the Habsburg constituent Margraviate of Moravia.
German Tyrol was historically an integral part of the Habsburg constituent Princely County of Tyrol but, with the imminent collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, areas of the empire with an ethnic German majority began to take actions to form a new state.
a "crown land", a constituent territory of Cisleithania, the Austrian half of former Austria–Hungary (1867–1918)
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