Austro-Hungarian Empire Genealogy

Regions beside Austria and Hungary:


 * 1) the Banat
 * 2) Bohemia
 * 3) Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * 4) Bukovina
 * 5) Carniola
 * 6) Croatia-Slavonia
 * 7) Dalmatia
 * 8) Galicia
 * 9) Kustenland
 * 10) Moravia
 * 11) Silesia (Lower)
 * 12) Slovakia
 * 13) Slovenia
 * 14) South Tyrol (Italian Tyrol)
 * 15) Transylvania

Name in official languages of Austria–Hungary

Names of the Dual Monarchy in languages of its citizens officially recognized:


 * Bosnian: Austro-Ugarska
 * Croatian: Austro-Ugarska
 * Czech: Rakousko-Uhersko
 * German: Österreich-Ungarn
 * Hungarian: Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia
 * Italian: Austria-Ungheria
 * Polish: Austro-Węgry
 * Romanian: Austro-Ungaria
 * Serbian: Aустро-Угарска/Austro-Ugarska
 * Slovak: Rakúsko-Uhorsko
 * Slovene: Avstro-Ogrska
 * Ukrainian: Австро-Угорщина/Avstro-Uhorshchina

Timeline

 * abt 1,000 A.D.: Iron plow invented in Lower Rhine region. Resultant increase in food production leads to population growth and German emigration to the east - Bohemia and Hungary - and to the Crusades.
 * 1130s: Zipser and Transylvania Saxon colonies founded by Germans (Upper Hungary - Slovakia and Transylvania).
 * 1241: Mongol raid devastates Hungary, Slovakia.
 * 1335-1350: Black Death (Bubonic plague) begins in Constantinople, spreads to Mediterranean seaports, then to Central and Western Europe. 50-75 % of Europe's population is wiped out. Emigration to the east ceases for a long time.
 * 1526: Battle of Mohacs - The Turks defeat Hungary and the Hungarian King dies on the battlefield. The Turks are repulsed in Vienna and the Habsburg monarchy takes over rule of Hungary.
 * 1545-1547: Council of Trent - Reform of the Roman Catholic church, beginning of church registers of baptism, marriage, death.
 * 1620-1650: Thirty Years' War - Germany and Bohemia are devastated by warring factions - Many church registers lost.
 * 1683: Second siege of Vienna by Turks - Turks are turned back and gradually retreat from Hungary; 1686 Budapest liberated; 1688 Belgrade liberated.
 * 1700s and early 1800s: Re-settlement of Hungary in the wake of 150 years of Turkish rule. The Banat and Backa are two main areas of 'Danube Swabian' settlements. (New settlers are actually from Alsace-Lorraine, Swabia, Slovakia, Bohemia, Galicia, Sub-Carpathian Rus, etc.).
 * 1848: Nationalist revolutions in Western and Central Europe. Vestiges of serfdom finally abolished. Beginning of Hungarian independence from Austria; Czechs and other nationalities gain small measures of cultural independence.
 * 1867: The compromise which institutes a dual monarchy. Two independent states which shared a common ruler, as emperor in Austria, as king in Hungary.
 * 1914-1918: Austria-Hungary defeated in First World War, split into separate entities based on nationality: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia created; Galicia goes to Poland; Transylvania goes to Romania.

Helpful Websites

 * Felix Gundacker Site
 * Maps III. katonai felmeres
 * Austrian Empire map on film FHL film number 1045395
 * commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Austria_hungary_1911.jpg