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In World War 1 the central powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman empire. Italy was initially part of that alliance ("triple alliance") but because it switched side to the Entente, in order to conquer some territory from Austria.

The triple alliance waged war against the triple entente, with France, Russia and UK with the commonwealth, but it started with the conflict in the Balkan. Also others, beside Serbia etc joined the Entente, like Japan and USA.

The Germany and Austria-Hungary were central European states and the war was fought all around them, so it wasn't strange to call them "central powers".

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The Central Powers of Germany and Austro-Hungary were named that because of their location. Those nations are located near the center of the European continent.

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the 'central powers' got that name because Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire were in the middle of France and Russia and so there for 'central' to the 'Allied Forces'.

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Basically because they were in the middle of the Allies- Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire all fall between Russia and the western Allies (Britain and France).

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