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Central Powers, name of a coalition during World War I comprising the German and Austro-Hungarian empires and, by extension, their allies, Ottoman Turkey and Bulgaria (from 1915). Originally, the term referred to the geographical position of Germany and Austria-Hungary in Europe.
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