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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen
It does seem incongruous to us now to think that Austria (Austria-Hungary) had a U-Boat fleet. This thread has helped renew my interest in that part of Europe in those far off times, when they had a coastline along the Adriatic Sea with the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Maybe they will have a coastline again, one day. Be it politically, or climate-wise..
They had quite a big High-Seas fleet, and as i read also lots of flat-going monitors and cannon boats for the Danube river.
Venice has belonged to Austria two times in history, and before that Crete and Cyprus belonged to Venice.. the latter has also attacked Austria several times.
"an area belonging to ..." is a very momentary term, over the centuries.