During his long reign, some of the methods that Franz Josef used to maintain his Habsburg empire were:
Franz Josef was a Habsburg emperor who was responsible for enlarging it and making it a very large empire. To do this, he needed to be ruthless sometimes.
One such time was when he crushed a revolt by the Hungarians and then killed their leaders as punishment. He then split the empire into the Austrian and Hungarian parts leading the empire being called the Austria - Hungary empire.
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