 The Illyrian movement sought to awaken Croatian national consciousness and a standardize regional literary traditions which existed in a various dialects on a single literary language.Once the Croatian lands were culturally unified, the movement aimed at unifying the rest of the South Slavs under the resurrected "Illyrian" name.Illyrianists during the Revolutions of 1848 sought to achieve political autonomy of Croatia within a federalized Habsburg monarchy.