Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen

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The historical term Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen used to denote a group of countries connected to the Kingdom of Hungary by personal union.

Name variants

Hungarian: Szent István Koronájának Országai - Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen, Szent Korona Országai - Lands of the Holy Crown, Magyar Korona Országai - Lands of the Hungarian Crown, Magyar Szent Korona Országai- Lands of the Hungarian Holy Crown
Croatian: Zemlje krune Svetog Stjepana - Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen
German: Länder der heiligen ungarischen Stephanskrone - Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of (St.) Stephen
Slovak: Krajiny Svätoštefanskej koruny - Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen, Krajiny uhorskej koruny - Lands of the Hungarian Crown

Characteristics

The term was widely used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to distinguish the Transleithanian part of the Habsburg Monarchy (later Austria-Hungary) from the Cisleithanian territories. It meant three countries:

the Kingdom of Hungary
the Kingdom of Croatia
the Grand Duchy of Transylvania

While the Diet of Hungary opposed the separation of Transylvania (being an integral part of medieval Hungary), they unsuccessfully demanded to reestablish the historical connections with Dalmatia, Bosnia, and Galicia and Lodomeria. These Cisleithanian provinces were theoretically part of the Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen, according to the Hungarian point of view.

After the union with Transylvania in 1848 and 1867, the term denoted only the Kingdoms of Hungary and Croatia.

On 29 October 1918 the Croatian Parliament declared the end of the union and joined the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs (later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia). At that point the term lost its meaning and its use ceased.

Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen

Name variants

Characteristics

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