Name the peoples who lived on the territory of the Austrian Empire.

During the period of its greatest prosperity, the Austrian Empire occupied the territory from Bukovina and Galicia in the east (Chernivtsi and Ternopil) and to Tyrol in the west, from the Sudetenland on the border with Germany and in the south to the city of Dubrovnik near Montenegro. The ethnic composition there was quite variegated.

Germans and Austrians lived in the west of the empire. The former made up the majority of the population in the Sudetenland and there were quite a few of them in Transylvania. Italians lived alongside the Austrians near the border with Italy.

In the south lived the southern Slavs: Slovenes, Croats, Bosnians, Serbs.

In the north and east of the empire lived Czechs, Moravans, Ukrainians, Romanians, Slovaks.

In addition, Jews, Gypsies and Hungarians lived there.