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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Hungarian Crown which have a total area of 127,204 sq.
Hungarian bishops had falleen at the battle of Mohács, and the subsequent disputes concerning the succession to the
Hungarian bishops presented special desideria (requests), the Patriarch of Venice presented postulata et desideria (demands and requests).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02121b.htm   (11207 words)

  
 2d. The Austro-Hungarian Empire [Beyond Books - Modern European History]
Although the revolution was crushed, Hungarian nationalist sentiment remained a persistent problem for the ruling Austrians.
Leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, Lajos Kossuth was the first president of the new Hungarian Republic.
As minority nationalities stepped up their campaigns for independence, the response from Austrian and Hungarian rulers was repression — in particular, the end of press freedoms and trial by jury.
www.beyondbooks.com /eur12/2d.asp   (972 words)

  
 Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The reorganization of Austria and Hungary was made possible by the Ausgleich [compromise] of 1867, a constitutional compromise between Hungarian aspirations for independence and Emperor Francis Joseph’s desire for a strong, centralized empire as a source of power after Austria’s defeat in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866.
The Hungarians gained control of their internal affairs in return for agreeing to a centralized foreign policy and continued union of the Austrian and Hungarian crowns in the Hapsburg ruler.
The agreement to establish the Dual Monarchy, which was worked out primarily by the Austrian foreign minister, Count Beust, and two Hungarians, the elder Count Andrássy and Francis Deak, divided the Hapsburg empire into two states.
www.bartleby.com /65/au/AustroHu.html   (957 words)

  
 Austria-Hungary - MSN Encarta
Then, in exchange for Hungarian support of the monarchy, he agreed to surrender his control of Hungarian internal affairs, including his protection of the non-Magyar peoples.
The Delegations was a common legislative body that included delegates from each parliament; it served as a link between the two national governments.
Under the guidance of Kálmán Tisza, Hungary's prime minister from 1875 to 1890, the Hungarian liberals in power were loyal to the compromise.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579967/Austria-Hungary.html   (1407 words)

  
 Austro-Hungarian Empire - Yacht Club Flags
In addition to the naval ensign (erroneously translated "merchant flag") there are nine rank flags, one for the commodore (highest rank in YC), and two sets of four for lower ranks and members' flag, each for either Austria or Hungary.
The difference is in the crown and the coat-of-arms used - for Austria the Austrian imperial crown and the fl double eagle, and for Hungary the St. Stephen's crown and the Hungarian coat-of-arms.
Regarding Hungarian ensigns, apart from Rijeka, and maybe Kraljevica (Porto Re) I doubt that there was important port that would have YC members.
www.fotw.net /flags/ah~yct.html   (1470 words)

  
 Researching Your Hungarian Ancestors
Audiotapes of lectures given at gneealogy conferences and seminars with the word Hungary and the word Hungarian in the title.
Hungarian Genealogy List and Help is the genealogy page of Hungarotips where you will find a fun page of information about the country.
She also provides a fill in the blank letter (in Hungarian) that can be sent to the Hungarian Archives.
www.barbsnow.net /Hungary.htm   (665 words)

  
 AH Submarine Force
Once more had the Hungarian part of the Monarchy succeeded in obtaining ­in contravention to the quota regulations­ 50 percent of the order despite the fact that necessary construction installations were not available.
Hanging over that difficult situation was the demand of the Hungarians to have their quota of 36.4 % of all orders filled.
the Austrian and Hungarian, with the provision that six boats should be built by Austrian and four by Hungarian shipyards.
www.gwpda.org /naval/ahsubs.htm   (3245 words)

  
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For example: Hungarian soldiers were sent to the Habsburg occupied Polish territories to keep the Poles under control.
But those Hungarians were in better connection with the opressed locals then with their hated Austrian officers.(The Poles are the best friends of the Hungarians.) So the Hungarian companies were watched by Austrian companies.
In te unification of Italy Hungarian volunteers fought with Garibaldi, he was and is well known and liked person in Hungary.
www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/30-31756.aspx   (2088 words)

  
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The German expression Übersee 'overseas' does not strictly denote the other side of the sea or ocean, but also something like 'over the seas and far away', an unfathomable distance or the incomprehensible language spoken by people from those overseas lands.
This latter meaning has an Hungarian equivalent, Óperencián is túl, meaning 'far beyond the Óperenciás Sea'.
He sums up the past 150 of Hungarian history: 1948 and the retaliations, the 1867 Ausgleich and the country's golden age.
fotomuveszet.elender.hu /9834/983411_eng.html   (4785 words)

  
 Austro-Hungarian empire re-emerges: Eastern European fare rules Nation's Restaurant News - Find Articles
Rudi Lechner's Restaurant serves a Hungarian goulash of beef tips simmered in spicy paprika sauce, but he tones down the spice content for other dishes, mainly because his clientele prefers subdued flavors.
Roast pork shank is seasoned with garlic and caraway seed and served with potatoes and red cabbage.
The hearty flavors of Hungarian food come not only from the seasonings but also from the way the food is cooked, says Chris Barton, executive chef of Cafe Budapest in Boston.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3190/is_13_34/ai_61492484   (860 words)

  
 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ARMY RANK FLAGS
The Austro-Hungarian Army (as it was known after the constitutional reforms of 1867 which created the Dual Monarchy) had many peculiar features that reflected the polyglot and somewhat ramshackle character of the state it served.
Since regiments were organized along "national" lines, a career Army officer often found it necessary to learn three, four or even six languages in addition to his native tongue.
The majority of officers were German Austrians and most of the rest were Hungarians, while many of the troops they commanded were Croats, Czechs, Bosnian Muslims, Poles, Slovaks, etc., etc.—a situation hardly calculated to foster organizational cohesion.
tmg110.tripod.com /austria3.htm   (521 words)

  
 The WWI Austro-Hungarian Assault Troops Badge
The upper badge to the left is a Hungarian molded copy, notice the lack of details to the teeth and the holes and craters to the helmet.
To the upper right is a die stamp post war Austrian re-strike made from copper with strong details, it appears to be a stick pin used for civilian dress.
To the upper right is a Hungarian copy of a Honvéd 14 Regt./5 Batl.
www.internationalmilitaria.com /articles/hungarian/ww1austrohungassaultbadge.html   (2139 words)

  
 onlinefx destination guide to austria
Around 20,000 Hungarians and 30,000 Croatians live in the east-most Bundesland, Burgenland (formerly part of Hungary).
According to the 2001 census, the mother tongue of the population by prevalance, is German (88.6%) followed by Turkish (2.3%), Serbian (2.2%), Croatian (1.6%), Hungarian (0.5%) and Bosnian (0.4%)[1].
The official language, German, is spoken by almost all residents of the country.
www.onlinefx.co.uk /fx/Stores/OnlineFX/destinationguide/austria.asp   (417 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Austro-Hungarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Austro Hungarian Free 2007 insiders guide to joining the Military.
Hungarian refugees fleeing the National insurgency in a temporary shelter.
During the 1956 revolution, about 150.000 Hungarian refugees crossed this bridge.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Austro-Hungarian   (345 words)

  
 Hungarian History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The German occupation of Hungary and the terror imposed by the Hungarian Fascist Arrow-Cross party ended at the beginning of April 1945, but were immediately followed by a Soviet invasion.
The merger of the Hungarian Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party took place in June 1948, under the name of the Hungarian Worker's Party, and all other parties simply disappeared.
Although the Hungarians had lost their revolution, the roots were sown for the future of Hungary and the weakening of the Communist movement worldwide.
www.paramountvantage.com /sunshine/history.html   (791 words)

  
 GySEV the railway from the Austro-Hungarian Empire
In 1923 The Hungarian and Austrian governments felt obliged to sustain the railway as an integrated operation which have continued to do so to this day.
The ownership of GySEV are 61% the Hungarian state, 33% the Austrian state and 6% smaller shareholders.
The official languages are Hungarian and German, but Hungarians have to speak German and Austrians do not have to speak Hungarian.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/hungary_heart_of_europe/71886   (405 words)

  
 German Genealogy: Habsburg Empire
In addition, it received from Hungary in 1921, the mostly German-speaking area of Burgenland with the exception of the municipality of Sopron/Ödenburg and immediately surrounding area where local resistance led to a plebiscite and the area remaining with Hungary.
In Burgenland, records are mostly in Hungarian and some secular records are still in the state archives in Budapest.
Retained were West and Central Hungary plus a small western portion of the Banat, the northern portion of the Batschka, the Central Hungarian Highlands, and the northern portion of Swabian Turkey.
www.genealogienetz.de /reg/AUT/aut-hun.html   (1999 words)

  
 Austro-Hungarian Military Mail 1914-1918 Chapter 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kaiser Karl declared that it was better to lose Venetia rather than one millimetre of Hungarian territory, and urgent steps were taken to form a front in south Hungary.
It was decided to move every available Hungarian formation from other fronts to defend their homeland.
A German corps, the Beskidenkorps, relieved the Austrians east of Krakau and the Carpathian offensive came to a halt.
www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk /austamps/dixnut/dn1.htm   (4065 words)

  
 Austro-Hungarian Empire
Note the missing yellow fimbration of the Hungarian coat of arms as well as the more rounded form of the shields, all according to the image in the decree.
Diem (1995) wrote about the white pearls in the crown of the war ensign: ""The originally 30 pearls of the war flag, however, became in the course of the decades 18 which were supposed to symbolize the Crown Lands."
As to its colours unchanged naval ensign the ancient Hungarian red-and-white coat of arms is to be shown next to the coat of arms of the "Austrian House".
flagspot.net /flags/ah.html   (1676 words)

  
 Austro-Hungarian Military Mail 1914-1918   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Every male in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy had to be available for military service from 1st January of the year in which his 19th birthday fell until 31st December of the year in which he became 42.
At the end of the period on the reserve the man was placed on the Landsturm rolls of his district and there did no further training but had to be available up to the age of 42.
Hungarian titles are dealt with in Appendix B. The full stops used in unit titles and abbreviations by the Austrian army have not been shown here.
www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk /austamps/dixnut/dn2.htm   (4844 words)

  
 The Austro-Hungarian Years (Spectacular Slovakia travel guide)
This forced young Slovak-speakers seeking upward mobility to abandon their Slovak roots and essentially become Hungarian.
"[Nearly] 20 percent of the population emigrated to the USA in the last half-century of Hungarian rule, a majority to never return." She adds an astonishing fact: by the end of Hungarian sovereignty in the early 20th century, both Budapest and Vienna "contained larger concentrations of Slovaks than any town in what is today Slovakia."
As literate Slovak speakers fled or assimilated, the territory's relatively small urban population was dominated by "Hungarian bureaucrats and aristocrats and German traders," Henderson writes.
www.spectacularslovakia.sk /ss2003/14_austro-hungarian.html   (303 words)

  
 Austria in 1914
The two largest ethnic groups were Germans (10 million) and Hungarians (9 million).
Hungarian politicians complained that the Austrian parliament was too powerful and that they were considered to be junior partners.
In 1879 Austro-Hungary and Germany agreed to form a Dual Alliance.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWinAustria.htm   (334 words)

  
 Austro-Hungarian Empire - First World War in the News
In order to avoid the crowds, the governor decided that the car should go different route, but he forgot to tell the driver, who turned right into the sights of the misplaced assassin.
The carve-up dominated Hungarian politics between the wars, and resonates strongly to this day.
It is estimated that up to 50,000 Czechs and Slovaks passed through Russia in the years 1918-20.
firstworldwar.cloudworth.com /austro-hungarian-empire.php   (545 words)

  
 Romanian and Hungarian Coin and Paper Money Catalogue
The pictures from the Catalogue are taken or scanned by me, from my collection.
I'm willing to exchange these for other Romanian or Hungarian (Austro-Hungarian) coins or currencies.
Just send me an email (in Romanian, Hungarian or English) to discuss the details.
www.levif.net /Catalogue   (341 words)

  
 Austria Europe - Pictures, Sites and Maps
German 88.5%, indigenous minorities 1.5% (includes Croatians, Slovenes, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Roma), recent immigrant groups 10% (includes Turks, Bosnians, Serbians, Croatians) (2001).
German (official nationwide), Slovene (official in Carinthia), Croatian (official in Burgenland), Hungarian (official in Burgenland).
Temperate; continental, cloudy; cold winters with frequent rain and some snow in lowlands and snow in mountains; moderate summers with occasional showers
austria.europe-countries.com   (2652 words)

  
 Austro Stock Photos / Pictures / Photography / Royalty Free Images at Inmagine
Austro Stock Photos / Pictures / Photography / Royalty Free Images at Inmagine
No Your search on "austro" returns no result.
Make sure all words are in correct spelling.
www.inmagine.com /searchterms/austro-hungarian.html   (77 words)

  
 Austro-Hungarian Land Forces - Links
The MHBK is the World Federation of Hungarian Veterans, or Magyar Harcosok Bajtársi Közössége.
Its aims are to represent Hungarian veterans, to preserve their history, and to perpetuate their valuable ideals.
The site of the Austrian Black Cross which details the casualties by Land in the Republic of Austria during both World Wars.
www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk /links.htm   (1624 words)

  
 Austro-hungarian Monarchy - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy or Dual Monarchy, the Hapsburg empire from 1867 until its fall in 1918.
The reorganization of Austria and Hungary was made possible by the Ausgleich [compromise] of 1867, a constitutional compromise between Hungarian aspirations for independence and Emperor Francis Joseph
The agreement to establish the Dual Monarchy, which was worked out primarily by the Austrian foreign minister, Count Beust
www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=AustroHu   (1026 words)

  
 The Austro-Hungarian Empire
The Austro-Hungarian empire encompassed many peoples, and so did its army.
Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Croats, Slovenes, Bosnians, Italians, Ruthenes and Jews fought in the army alongside the Austrians and Hungarians, and under Austrian and Hungarian officers.
Appealing to nationalistic aspirations, the Austrians formed the Polish Legion, led by Pilsudski.
members.tripod.com /~Brickie/austria.html   (500 words)

  
 Turkey and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Steve Torok, a Hungarian, comments on our postings commending Kemal Ataturk for having saved Turkey from dismemberment: "Unfortunately there was no Ataturk in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, so the allies did break it up, with similar consequences on history textbooks in the successor states!"
My comment: Much as I admire President Wilson, the break up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the name of self-determination was a tragedy.
World War One also demonstrates how a young terrorist (now a national hero for the Serbs) can provoke a worldwide tragedy.
www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Turkey/turkey_austrohungarianmonarchy6901.html   (149 words)

  
 Felix G. Game, Specialist Austro-Hungarian Genealogy
You will find useful information about Austrian and Hungarian historical and sociological details that will help you make your family history more meaningful and interesting.
A retired professional genealogist and translator who had specialised mostly in Hungarian research but also handled Austrian research in the context of the Austro-Hungarian (Habsburg) Monarchy.
Published author of a 550 page hard cover history of his family.
www.felix-game.ca   (428 words)

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