Dual Alliance

noun

1. the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
2. the alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary against Russia 1879–1918.

Dual Alliance

noun

1. the alliance between France and Russia (1893–1917)
2. the secret Austro-German alliance against Russia (1879) later expanded to the Triple Alliance

Example Sentences

Passing through several mutations, that dual alliance took over most of the peninsula and has endured to this day, with the House of Saud ruling in sometimes uneasy concert with an ultra-conservative Wahhabi religious establishment.

From BBC

Passing through several mutations, that dual alliance took over most of the peninsula and has endured to this day, with the House of Saud ruling in sometimes uneasy concert with an ultra-conservative Wahhabi religious establishment.

From BBC

Passing through several mutations, that dual alliance took over most of the peninsula and has endured to this day, with the House of Saud ruling in sometimes uneasy concert with an ultra-conservative Wahhabi religious establishment.

From BBC

This is known as the Dual Alliance.

From Project Gutenberg

Rumania is listed as an ally of the World War I Dual Alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary; it was not, but Bulgaria was.

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