February 14, 1926.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire's advance forces had already clashed fiercely with the Hungarian Labor Party regime's troops. Over the past few days, Budapest had become like Saint Petersburg in the past, with the Labor Party sweeping through Budapest's suburbs and surrounding areas like a rising tide.
They had thus established relatively solid bases of support. At the same time, Labor Party strongholds of varying sizes had emerged across other parts of Hungary, centering on Budapest as they resisted the Empire's suppression forces.
The Hungarian incident had also triggered unrest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire's other kingdoms. Though it was not as spectacular as in Hungary, storm clouds were churning throughout the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Kingdom of Dalmatia, located along the Adriatic Sea and subordinate to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was one of the most stable regions compared to the Empire's other territories.
City of Zadar.
This was the capital of the Kingdom of Dalmatia, as well as one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's main port cities on the Adriatic Sea.
Before the First World War, its residents had primarily been Croats, followed by Italians, Serbs, Serbs, Germans (Austrians), and other ethnic groups.
However, Zadar's demographic makeup had undergone a drastic change before and after the First World War. Mixed-blood Germans from the south had moved north and poured into the city, causing the German population in Zadar to grow at breakneck speed.
Though they had not formed an outright majority, the influence of the Mixed-blood Germans had become completely impossible to stop, because the entire Kingdom of Dalmatia was already dominated by Mixed-blood Germans from the south.
According to the latest population data, Dalmatia's German population had risen to two million, holding an overwhelming advantage, while all other ethnic groups combined numbered only several hundred thousand.
Furthermore, due to intermarriage,