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Central Powers

noun

In World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies.

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... of February (N. S.) we learned that the peace negotiations carried on behind our backs between the Rada and the Central Powers, had been signed. The 9th of February happened to be the birthday of Leopold of Bavaria, and, as is the custom in monarchical countries, the triumphant historical act was timed—with or without the consent of the ...

— From October to Brest-Litovsk • Leon Trotzky

... always directed to self-preservation and aggrandisement; it is an imperium in imperio, which has only checked fanatical nationalism by the competing influence of a still more fanatical partisanship. In the present war, the problem before the Pope's councillors was whether the friendship of the Central Powers or that of the Entente was best worth cultivating; and the unshaken loyalty of Austria to the Church, together with a natural preference for German methods of governing as compared with democracy, turned the scale against us. In Ireland, in Canada and in Spain the Catholic priests have been ...

— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge

Words linked to "Central Powers" : alliance, coalition, alinement, alignment