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THE
MILITARY BORDER -
A
HABSBURG "LIMES"
Deutsch
MAP
The Austro-Hungarian
Military Border, which became a separate crownland in 1849, comprised nearly
13,000 square miles with 1.2 million inhabitants (in 1869) and extended
as a narrow strip of land from the Adriatic Sea all the way to Northern
Transylvania. It can be called the "Habsburg Limes" (to borrow a
term from ancient Rome's string of border forts in Southern Germany), which
for almost 200 years secured a nearly 1,000 miles border from the advances
of the Ottoman Empire. The area was organized under strict military rules
and constituted the following sectors:
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1. Croatian Military Border
(1538-1872/81)
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2. Slavonian-Syrmian Military
Border (1702-1872/81)
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3. Banat Military Border
(1742-1872/81)
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4. Transylvanian Military
Border (1764-1851)
In total, there were 14
Infantry Border Regiments and 1 Border Battalion with associated land districts
and 12 Military Communities. The Croatian Military Border, comprised of
Karlstadt, Warasdin and Banal, and the Slavonian were in 1878 joined as
the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia. The Banat Military Border, with the
Tchaikist Battalion (formed in 1763) in the Danube-Theiss-Angle which had
previously been part of Slavonia-Syrmia, was in 1872 transferred to the
Kingdom of Hungary and constituted parts of the counties of Bács,
Temes and Krasso. The Transylvanian Military Border consisted of Szekely
(formed 1764) and Wallachia (formed 1766) and by 1851 had been transferred
to the Grand Duchy of Transylvania.
Last update: February
07, 1999
Thanks to Rick Heli
for the translation; look also at his page: THE MILITARY BORDER
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