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Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya was born at Kenderes to an untitled lower nobility, descended from István Horti, ennobled by King Ferdinand II in 1635. [15] His father, István Horthy de Nagybánya (not to be confused with István Horthy, Horthy's eldest son), was a member of the House of Magnates, the upper chamber of the Diet of Hungary, and lord of a 610-hectare (1,500-acre) estate. [16]
The Kingdom of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyar Királyság [ˈmɒɟɒr ˈkiraːjʃaːɡ]), referred to retrospectively as the Regency and the Horthy era, existed as a country from 1920 to 1946 [a] under the rule of Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary, who officially represented the Hungarian monarchy.
Horthy was created Prince of Otranto & Szeged and was awarded the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresia, both distinctions which he didn't use. [8] A tentative three-week truce was reached that both men interpreted differently. Horthy expected Charles to leave Hungary and either march on Vienna or retire to Switzerland. Charles ...
Late in the Second World War, at the time of the joint coup d’état by which the German Nazis and the Arrow Cross Party overthrew the Regent of Hungary, Miklós Horthy (r. 1920–1944), the Red Army occupied most of the Kingdom of Hungary, which effectively limited the authority of the Government of National Unity to the city of Budapest and its environs as the Hungarian capital city.
The Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyar Érdemrend) was established on 14 June, 1922, by Miklós Horthy, the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary. On 23 December, 1935, it was transformed into an official distinction. Since then, it has been known as the Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyar Érdemrend).
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, on a visit to Russia, secured the release on Tuesday of Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher detained in Russia since August 2021, the ...
The National Army invaded Budapest in November 1919, and four months later Horthy became Regent of the newly established Kingdom of Hungary. But, far from discontinuing their campaigns, the reactionary units expanded and continued terrorising their targets for almost two more years; politically motivated violence devolved into grudge-murders ...
The Royal Hungarian Army (Hungarian: Magyar Királyi Honvédség, German: Königlich Ungarische Armee) was the name given to the land forces of the Kingdom of Hungary in the period from 1922 to 1945. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Its name was inherited from the Royal Hungarian Honvéd which went under the same Hungarian title of Magyar Királyi ...