Little Alliance: Meaning and Definition of

Lit'tle Alli'ance

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  1. an economic and military alliance (1920) between Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, which were joined the following year by Rumania, formed as a counterbalance to the informal alliance that existed between Austria, Germany, Hungary, and Italy.
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