Kronländer

From the late 18th century, it was the common name for the countries of the Habsburg Monarchy, from 1804 for the territorial parts of the Austrian Empire and from 1867 for the western half of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The designation is therefore not unambiguous and depends in each case on the respective historical point in time at which the countries in question became part of the Habsburg Empire, either through armed conflicts, marriages or political events. In the beginning this meant more a kind of honorary position and at the end of the monarchy the designation for more or less federal sovereign states. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, the Kingdom of Hungary (including the Grand Duchy of Transylvania, which was fully united with Hungary in 1866) and the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia, which belonged to the Hungarian Crown, were no longer considered crown lands. The term was only used in Cisleithania.

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