Therefore, the news published in January 1908 in the German navy magazine "Marine Rundschau", saying that the keel of the first Italian dreadnought battleship was about to be laid resulted in a spontaneous Austro-Hungarian reaction. Austria and Italy, however, could not forget their mutual rivalry, especially seen during the war in 1866, when Austrian army defeated Italian army several times and when the Austrian fleet defeated Italian fleet in the battle of Vis (Lissa) on July 20th 1866. At the beginning of 20th century, the allied Central powers (Austro-Hungary, Italy and Germany) made a contract about fighting together against possible mutual enemies (Great Britain, France and Russia - united in the Entente).
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