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The Imperial-Royal Landwehr (German: kaiserlich-königliche Landwehr or k.k. Landwehr), also called the Austrian Landwehr, was the territorial army of the Cisleithanian or Austrian half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1869 to 1918. Its counterpart was the Royal Hungarian Landwehr (k.u. Landwehr).
This led the Hungarian half of the Empire to immediately begin establishing its own army: the Royal Hungarian Honved (Hungarian: Magyar Királyi Honvédség). In response, the Cisleithanian half of the Empire also began to build its own army, the Imperial-Royal Landwehr.
The Imperial Austrian Army formed the land forces of the Austrian Empire.It arose from the remains of the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Emperor after its dissolution and in 1867 was reformed into the Common Army of Austria-Hungary and the Imperial-Royal Landwehr after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867.
In 1911, the fifth regiment followed: the 27th Imperial-Royal Landwehr Infantry (Laibach). [1] The area of the Carnic ridge in Carinthia and the Julian Alps was assigned to the 4th Landwehr Infantry and the 27th Landwehr Infantry . These two, hitherto standard infantry regiments were given the new uniform of the mountain troops.
The barracks of the 3rd Uhlans in Bielitz (now Bielsko-Biała) is still used today by the Polish Armed Forces. 1867 uniform regulation (1911/12 edition).. The Common Army (German: Gemeinsame Armee, Hungarian: Közös Hadsereg) as it was officially designated by the Imperial and Royal Military Administration, was the largest part of the Austro-Hungarian land forces from 1867 to 1914, the other ...
The two new Landwehr forces thus existed alongside the Common Army (Gemeinsame Armee), the imperial army of the whole Empire. In effect this meant that Austria-Hungary had three separate armies at the same time. Imperial and Royal Hussars around 1910 Hungarian Hussars attack in Krasnik, Poland 23. August 1914
The Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces (German: Bewaffnete Macht or Wehrmacht; Hungarian: Fegyveres Erő) or Imperial and Royal Armed Forces were the military forces of Austria-Hungary. It comprised two main branches: The Army ( Landstreitkräfte ) and the Navy ( Kriegsmarine ).
182nd (16th Royal Saxon) Infantry: 1 October 1912: Freiberg: XII Army Corps: Royal Bavarian Infantry Lifeguards Regiment: 16 July 1814: München: I Royal Bavarian Corps: 1st Royal Bavarian Infantry "King" 1 July 1778: München: I Royal Bavarian Corps: 2nd Royal Bavarian Infantry "Crown Prince" 29 June 1682: München: I Royal Bavarian Corps