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A new Transylvanian Diet had already approved reunion with Hungary. Austria-Hungary was formed in February 1867 through a constitutional agreement known as the Compromise (German: Ausgleich; Hungarian: Kiegyezés). Franz Joseph admitted the validity of the March Laws on the condition that conduct of common (i.e., overlapping) affairs would be revised. He appointed a responsible Hungarian ministry under Gyula (Julius), Count Andrássy, who—strangely enough—had been involved in the Revolution of 1848 and afterwards was hanged in effigy. A committee of the Diet then elaborated a law that, while laying down Hungary’s full internal independence, provided for common ministries for foreign affairs ...(100 of 37110 words)