Severní cesta emigrantů z habsburské monarchie
The north journey of emigrant's from the Habsburg monarchy

Summary/Abstract: Inhabitants of the Habsburg monarchy began to dominate in the number of immigrants headingto the United States of America after year 1883. The largest numbers of emigrants were headingthrough the North German ports, because the journey to the north of Germany was not difficultat the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Thanks to emigration, two German ports, Hamburgand Bremen, recorded the prosperity growth. Both ports played a major role in emigration as animaginary gateway for emigrants from monarchy, and both German shipping companies, HamburgAmerikanische Paketfahrt Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) based in Hamburg and NorddeutscherLloyd (NDL) of which shipping departed port Bremen, must be grateful for poor emigrants from theHabsburg monarchy. German companies began to focus on the monarchy market, especially afterthe German government began regulating emigration from its own country, and then the two Germanshipping companies found a replacement in the monarchy.

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