Lands of the Hungarian Crown
The Lands of the Hungarian Crown[1][2][3] were a group or territories ruled nominally or absolutely by the Hungarian king.
After 1526 Hungary disintegrated into three parts. From the 16th century, Hungary proper, Croatia and Transylvania were the three regna of the Crown.[1] These lands had some links with each other but became more and more autonomous during the centuries.[1]
In the 18th century, the Lands of the Hungarian Crown consisted of the Kingdoms of Hungary, Croatia and Slavonia with the city of Fiume, the Grand Principality of Transylvania, the Croatian-Slavonian, and the Serbian-Hungarian military frontiers.
Galicia was acquired by the Habsburgs in the name of the Hungarian Crown, however it wasn't attached to Hungary.[1]
During the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 the Hungarian government proclaimed in the April Laws of 1848 that Transylvania became fully integrated into Hungary, however, after the fall of the revolution, the March Constitution of Austria defined that the Principality of Transylvania as being a separate crown land that is entirely independent of Hungary.[4]
In 1867, the Crown's two regna Transylvania and Hungary were reunited in the process of the creation of Austria-Hungary, however Croatia kept and improved its position as an autonomous realm within the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen.
After World War One, Transylvania was ceded to Romania and Croatia merged into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
References
- 1 2 3 4 Laszlo Péter, Hungary's Long Nineteenth Century: Constitutional and Democratic Traditions in a European Perspective, BRILL, 2012, pp. 51-56
- ↑ David F. Good, The Economic Rise of the Habsburg Empire, 1750-1914, University of California Press, 1984, p. 3
- ↑ Alan Sked, Radetzky: Imperial Victor and Military Genius, I.B.Tauris, 2011, p. 3
- ↑ Austrian Constitution of 4 March 1849. (Section I, Art. I and Section IX., Art. LXXIV)