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In mapping out the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia by its neighbors, it was interesting to learn about the detailed timeline of events. The typical summary is Germany takes the Sudentenland in 1938 then Bohemia in 1939, leaving a puppet Slovakia as a rump state. In reality, there were actions...

Hello historians :) ... I am writting short essay about Greek-catholic Church in Slovakia from 1646 (Užhorodská únia) to 1918. Please help me. I need translate documate from Latin to english language or rewrite this document from Latin to nowadays language. Please help me. Thank you so much.

Hungary became part of the Habsburg realms, when Ferdinand I was crowned king in 1527. However, from the very beginning, the Habsburg rule was repeatedly contested by both John Szapolyai and his Transylvanian-based successors, but also by the Ottoman Turks, who already conquered much of the...

I am posting selected passages of the long history of Ottoman wars but sometimes it is good to see the whole story so let me write a very short and superficial summary of Ottoman-Hungarian wars, as a Hungarian sees it: The 1st part: 1368-1541; The Kingdom of Hungary tried to block the Ottoman...

Hello, Is here anybody who know to translate 15 sentences from Hungary language to English language? Please, it is about history of small village in Slovakia. If you want to help me, please send me a message and I will send you my mail.

Apparently in the second-century BC the Han Chinese under Wudi learned that the best time to attack the Xiongnu was in the spring, since their animals were weak from winter grazing. Yet when the Magyars arrive in Europe, we find them attacking during the spring - a number of the early raids into...

In 1940 (specifically after the Fall of France and the resulting German domination of Europe), there was the Second Vienna Award--which awarded northern Transylvania to Hungary (Romania previously controlled northern Transylvania). However, my question is this--why weren't the heavily German...

Hi, I've recently launched the Kickstarter for my first comic project- Vampires of Hungary: The Holy Roman Empire. It's set in 1416 and follows a group of knights and a priest from the Vatican who are investigating claims that the Hungarian Cabinet and Queen Barbara De Cilli are vampires. If you...

Why did Hungary fail to Magyarize its non-Hungarian territories in spite of the fact that it controlled these territories for 1,000 years? : As you can tell by the maps above, Hungary already controlled almost all of its 1914 territory by 1100 and yet in the 800 years that it controlled...

I found a rather interesting claim on the Hungarian wikipage of the Wallachian Voivode, Thocomerius, who was the father of Basarab. It says, that he was the bastard son of the Hungarian king, Ladislaus IV and a Mongolian princess named Édua, who was the sister of the future Toqta Khan of the...

I've wrote a small piece on Queen Barbara De Cilli of Hungary (1392–1451) and why she was seen as a vampire. Check it out at http://www.theblood-shed.com/queen-barbara-de-cilli-vampire/ and if anyone knows of any English books or articles regarding Barbara De Cilli I'd love to read them. I've...

Why weren't the Jews allowed to became ministers in governments in pre-WW1 era Continental Europe? The only except was Hungary. In interwar period of Hungary the Hungarian nationalism switched to the eastern ethnic nationalist model from the Western citoyen/citizen-ship (ius soli) nationalism...

Hi All, I'm currently working on my first comic series 'Vampires Of Hungary: The Holy Roman Empire'. It will be a vmapire hroro coemdy set in Hungary in 1416 and focusing on Barbara De Cilli- check out some images here-...

Hello there! So, I stumbled across this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)#1830%E2%80%931938_(Bairoch) Seeing the GNP of Austria-Hungary made me wonder, how much did Austria and how much did Hungary contribute to that number(, also how much did Bosnia)? I assume...

The Hungarians and Bulgarians both used mounted archers in their early history but as they became more settled the practice died out. The question being, when did the high skill in this practice begin to disappear?

Did the Banate of Croatia have counties in the Middle Ages, most notably in the 13th-14th centuries? If yes, could anyone help me find a map about it? Thanks for help in advance!

Hello there! My question is, that what do you think, theoretically which country was stronger, more developed, etc. in the 1440s/1450s between these European nations: Castille, England, Hungary, Poland and Muscovy? Could you make a ranklist for these countries? I'm modding a historical...

Does anybody know any detailed narrative of events in Hungary right after the Mohacs battle (ending of 1526 and the first half of 1527) in English or German? French is welcome as well.

In East Europe, most of the Slavic peoples plus the Romanians converted in the early Middle Ages to the Orthodox Christian faith. Most of the Poles and Hungarians, however, opted for Catholicism. What were the historical and cultural factors which contributed to this choice?

Due to an elaboration from Tsar about the Habsburg countries in 1848 in the thread from Prince of Orange on my reply to the Prince of Orange about the merits or not from the Hungarian revolution of 1848, I want to redirect this subject overhere as it becomes a bit out of subject overthere ...