I want to know the answer to the following question:
Aside from the Ottoman Empire, which other empire did the Serb and Croat lands in the mid 19th century belong to?
All the background I'm provided with is that "Croatian linguist Dalibor Brozović advocated the term Serbo-Croatian as late as 1988, claiming that in an analogy with Indo-European, Serbo-Croatian does not only name the two components of the same language, but simply charts the limits of the region in which it is spoken and includes everything between the limits (‘Bosnian’ and ‘Montenegrin’).". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no