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All Austro-Hungarian insignia were removed from the city streets, and the Italian, Croatian, and Serbian flags were raised at the City Guard building. [40] The Serbian and Croatian flags were removed seven days later. [41] The torpedo boat 68 PN and the destroyer Audace arrived at Zadar on 5 and 7 November, respectively. [42]
The Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia was part of Austria-Hungary during World War I.Its territory was administratively divided between the Austrian and Hungarian parts of the empire; Međimurje and Baranja were in the Hungarian part (Transleithania), the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia was a separate entity associated with the Hungarian Kingdom, Dalmatia and Istria were in the ...
The change of leadership was far from a solution to the war with the Ottomans, in fact, the Ottoman Empire gradually expanded in the 16th century to include most of Slavonia, western Bosnia and Lika. Croatian territory under Habsburg rule was 25 years later reduced to about 20,000 km 2 (7,700 sq mi). In 1558, the parliaments of Croatia and ...
The Military Frontier (German: Militärgrenze; Serbo-Croatian: Војна крајина, Vojna krajina, Војна граница, Vojna granica; Hungarian: Katonai határőrvidék; Romanian: Granița Militară) was a borderland of the Habsburg monarchy and later the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Grenz infantry or Grenzers or Granichary (from German: Grenzer "border guard" or "frontiersman"; Serbo-Croatian: graničari, krajišnici, Hungarian: granicsár, Serbian Cyrillic: граничари, крајишници, Russian Cyrillic: граничары) were light infantry troops who came from the Military Frontier in the Habsburg monarchy (later the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary).
The 42nd division was called Domobranska Pjesacka Divizija in Croatian, or Home Defense Infantry Division, Honvéd in Hungarian and Landwehr in German. [1]The division was created shortly before World War I, within the 7th Home Guard Croatia-Slavonia District of the Royal Croatian Home Guard, it had the honorary title of Slavonski Domobrani (Slavonian Home Guard) but its official title was the ...
After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, which strengthened the division and unveiled the prospect of unification of Dalmatia with Croatia-Slavonia to a minimum, the People's Party returned to the political and cultural struggle to croatize Dalmatia, especially focusing on schools, wanting to introduce Croatian as a teaching language.
At the outbreak of war, the Austro-Hungarian army had 48 infantry divisions (including seven Landwehr and eight Honved) and eleven cavalry divisions (of which two were Honved). The Austro-Hungarian infantry division numbered between 12,000 and 18,000 men, while the cavalry divisions averaged 5,000 fewer soldiers.