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Lit'tle Alli'ance
Europ. Hist.
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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