On October 8, 1911, the Byzantine Senate received a request from the provincial governments of Serbia, Montenegro, and Albania, asking for the right to succeed. The Senate voted on this, on after one week, the provinces were granted the right to a referendum on October 27, 1912. But Austria-Hungary denied their ability to be independent, stating if the states were allowed to succeed, they would declare war. Austria-Hungary, formed after the Third Global War, thought that if these states were allowed to succeed, that ethnicity withing their state would also wish to do so, likely ending their empire. But when the referendum came around, each of the states vote around 70% for succession, and independence was agreed to be granted on October 8, 1913, and establishing provisional government in t