<P> The demands of nationalism and its contradictions became apparent as new national governments began declaring power and unity . Charles Albert of Sardinia , King of Piedmont - Savoy , initiated a nationalist war on March 23 in the Austrian held northern Italian provinces that would consume the attention of the entire peninsula . The German nationalist movement faced the question of whether or not Austria should be included in the united German state , a quandary that divided the Frankfurt National Assembly . The liberal ministers in Vienna were willing to allow elections for the German National Assembly in some of the Habsburg lands , but it was undetermined which Habsburg territories would participate . Hungary and Galicia were clearly not German ; German nationalists ( who dominated the Bohemian Diet ) felt the old crown lands rightfully belonged to a united German state , despite the fact that the majority of the people of Bohemia and Moravia spoke Czech -- a Slavic language . Czech nationalists viewed the language as far more significant , calling for a boycott of the Frankfurt Parliament elections in Bohemia , Moravia , and neighboring Austrian Silesia ( also partly Czech - speaking ) . Tensions in Prague between German and Czech nationalists grew quickly between April and May . After the abolition of serfdom on April 17 , Supreme Ruthenian Council was established in Galicia to promote the unification of ethnic Ukrainian lands of Eastern Galicia , Transcarpathia and Bukovyna in one province . Ukrainian language department was opened in Lviv University , and the first Ukrainian newspaper Zoria Halytska started publishing in Lviv on May 15 , 1848 . On July 1 , serfdom was also abolished in Bukovyna . </P>
<P> The demands of nationalism and its contradictions became apparent as new national governments began declaring power and unity . Charles Albert of Sardinia , King of Piedmont - Savoy , initiated a nationalist war on March 23 in the Austrian held northern Italian provinces that would consume the attention of the entire peninsula . The German nationalist movement faced the question of whether or not Austria should be included in the united German state , a quandary that divided the Frankfurt National Assembly . The liberal ministers in Vienna were willing to allow elections for the German National Assembly in some of the Habsburg lands , but it was undetermined which Habsburg territories would participate . Hungary and Galicia were clearly not German ; German nationalists ( who dominated the Bohemian Diet ) felt the old crown lands rightfully belonged to a united German state , despite the fact that the majority of the people of Bohemia and Moravia spoke Czech -- a Slavic language . Czech nationalists viewed the language as far more significant , calling for a boycott of the Frankfurt Parliament elections in Bohemia , Moravia , and neighboring Austrian Silesia ( also partly Czech - speaking ) . Tensions in Prague between German and Czech nationalists grew quickly between April and May . After the abolition of serfdom on April 17 , Supreme Ruthenian Council was established in Galicia to promote the unification of ethnic Ukrainian lands of Eastern Galicia , Transcarpathia and Bukovyna in one province . Ukrainian language department was opened in Lviv University , and the first Ukrainian newspaper Zoria Halytska started publishing in Lviv on May 15 , 1848 . On July 1 , serfdom was also abolished in Bukovyna . </P>
who resisted nationalism in the austrian empire in the 1800s
who resisted nationalism in the austrian empire in the 1800s
Charles Albert of Sardinia
Charles Albert of Sardinia