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Why are the names of wars during 1815-1914 generally so... boring? Why Austro-Prussian, Sino-French, Russo-Japanese or Spanish-American over something more interesting than just the names of the two participants?

by /u/EnclavedMicrostate in /r/AskHistorians

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