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The Austro-Prussian War (in Germany known as Deutscher Krieg ("German War"); or Six Weeks War, the Unification War[2] or the German Civil War or Bruderkrieg, (German for "fraternal war") was a war fought in 1866 between the German Confederation under the leadership of the Austrian Empire and its German allies on one side and the Kingdom of Prussia with its German allies and Italy on the other, that resulted in Prussian dominance over the German states. In Germany and Austria, it is also called Österreichisch-preussischer Krieg (Austro-Prussian War). In the Italian unification process, this is called the Third Independence War.
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Austro-Prussian War (Seven Weeks' War) | |||||||||
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Part of the wars of German unification | |||||||||
Battle of Königgrätz, by Georg Bleibtreu. Oil on canvas, 1869. | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Austria |
Prussia | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Franz Josef |
Victor Emmanuel II | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
600,000 Austrians and German allies |
500,000 Prussians and German allies 300,000 Italians | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
Austria: over 71,000[1][note 1] | 37,000 dead or wounded (German and Italian) |
The major result of the war was a shift in power among the German states away from Austrian and towards Prussian hegemony, and impetus towards the unification of all of the northern German states in a Kleindeutschland that excluded Austria. It saw the abolition of the German Confederation and its partial replacement by a North German Confederation that excluded Austria and the South German states. The war also resulted in the Italian annexation of the Austrian province of Venetia.