Leitha
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The Leitha is a river in Austria and Hungary, a right tributary of the Danube. It is 120.8 km long. Its basin area is 2,138 km2.
The Leitha near Kleinwolkersdorf
Plaque at Leitha origin
Dried-up streambed of Leitha near Bad Erlach
Leitha River Hexen statues in Lanzenkirchen
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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…issued by King Sigismund, when his daughter Elizabeth married the Habsburg duke Albert II of Austria. The placenames Cisleithania, Transleithania and Lajtabánság are all derived from the Leitha River. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, which created the Dual Monarchy, Transleithanien ("beyond the…
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