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October 27

Did the Italians, Romanians, and Serbs in Austria-Hungary want to join Italy/Serbia/Romania before WWI?

Did the Italians, Romanians, and Serbs in Austria-Hungary (in Trentino, Trieste, Istria, Fiume, Transylvania, Bukovina, Bosnia, Croatia, and Vojvodina) want to join Italy/Serbia/Romania before the start of World War I? Or did the idea of annexing these territories to Italy/Serbia/Romania only become popular in these territories after World War I broke out?

For the record, I am focusing on these three ethnic groups because all of them actually had an independent motherland which they could aim to join. In contrast, the Poles, Ukrainians, et cetera did not have an independent motherland back then.

Anyway, any thoughts on this? Futurist110 (talk) 02:49, 27 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Some information about the size of the Italian populations in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Austro-Hungarian Naval Policy, 1904-1914 (pp. 2-4), although not much about their political aspirations. Alansplodge (talk) 23:15, 27 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The notion of a nation annexing territory, which is not part of their country, but which they claim due to being settled by a certain ethnic group, is called irredentism, and the OP is likely to find LOTS of information there. Part of the nationalism of the 19th and early 20th century were many irredentist movements, notably (for answering this question) is Italian irredentism. --Jayron 32 01:42, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]