Burgenland
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Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous state of Austria. It consists of two statutory cities and seven rural districts, with a total of 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to so
Habsburg mortgages in Burgenland between the 15th and 17th centuries
Protocol of Venice from Oct.13.1921
A memorial in Krensdorf to soldiers who died in the two World Wars
Unterwart Landscape (East Styrian Hills)
Lajtabánság
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Lajtabánság, or the Banate of Leitha, was a short-lived western Hungarian state in the region that today forms the Austrian state of Burgenland. It existed between 4 October and 10 November 1921, foll
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…who did not want to live under Austrian rule, leading to the Uprising in West Hungary in 1921. Prónay occupied the whole area and created the state of Lajtabánság. With the help of Italian diplomatic mediation in the Venice Protocol, the crisis was resolved in the autumn of 1921, when Hungary committed to disarm…
In 1921, Major Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek leads a detachment of mounted gendarmes through Sopron in support of the West-Hungarians who are protesting the Trianon Treaty which would turn over West Hungary to Austria.
A provisional 2.5 forint stamp
Pál Prónay, leader of the Rongyos Gárda
Members of the Rongyos Gárda on the proclamation of Lajtabánság in Oberwart