buherator on Nostr: I'm not a huge #history nerd but this is amazing: Turns out the Austro-Hungarian ...
I'm not a huge #history nerd but this is amazing:
Turns out the Austro-Hungarian Empire had a colony in China(!) after they helped out western allies against the Boxer Rebellion, and a later Chinese Emperor (Yuan Shikai) even had Austrian citizenship (article in Hungarian):
https://falanszter.blog.hu/2011/01/19/az_osztrak_magyar_monarchia_kinai_gyarmata
In short this is why my son could find Chinese letters on a cannon at the side of the Danube.
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Turns out the Austro-Hungarian Empire had a colony in China(!) after they helped out western allies against the Boxer Rebellion, and a later Chinese Emperor (Yuan Shikai) even had Austrian citizenship (article in Hungarian):
https://falanszter.blog.hu/2011/01/19/az_osztrak_magyar_monarchia_kinai_gyarmata
In short this is why my son could find Chinese letters on a cannon at the side of the Danube.
/cc npub1l2xytyfvy5f4hx7jp9d08g32ahcxv00t8mgzjjmuns55fjfddqnslwydl8 (npub1l2x…ydl8)