18 Facts About Royal Hungary

Royal Hungary was the symbol of the continuity of formal law after the Ottoman occupation, because it could preserve its legal traditions, but in general, it was de facto a Habsburg province.

The Hungarian nobility forced Vienna to admit that Royal Hungary was a special unit of the Habsburg lands and had to be ruled in conformity with its own special laws.

Term "Royal Hungary" fell into disuse after 1699, and the Habsburg Kings referred to the newly enlarged country by the more formal term "Kingdom of Hungary".

Royal Hungary became a part of the Habsburg monarchy and enjoyed little influence in Vienna.

Protestants, who were persecuted in Royal Hungary, considered the Counter-Reformation a greater menace than the Turks, however.

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Out of all his countries, the depleted Kingdom of Royal Hungary was, at that time, Ferdinand's largest source of revenue.

Royal Hungary hoped that the Pragmatic Sanction would keep the Habsburg Empire intact if his daughter, Maria Theresa, succeeded him.

The Diet approved the Pragmatic Sanction in 1723, and Royal Hungary thus agreed to become a hereditary monarchy under the Habsburgs for as long as their dynasty existed.

Royal Hungary's established special schools to attract Hungarian nobles to Vienna.

Royal Hungary refused to take the Hungarian coronation oath to avoid being constrained by Hungary's constitution.

Royal Hungary decreed that German replace Latin as the empire's official language and granted the peasants the freedom to leave their holdings, to marry, and to place their children in trades.

Royal Hungary himself became Francis I, the first Emperor of Austria, ruling from 1804 to 1835, so later he was named the one and only Doppelkaiser in history.

Royal Hungary did not reap the full benefit of the boom because most of the profits went to the magnates, who considered them not as capital for investment but as a means of adding luxury to their lives.

Royal Hungary inspired such projects as the construction of the suspension bridge linking Buda and Pest.

Royal Hungary practiced law with his father before moving to Pest.

Royal Hungary called for broader parliamentary democracy, rapid industrialization, general taxation, economic expansion through exports, and the abolition of privileges and serfdom.

The non-Magyar minorities of Royal Hungary received little for their support of Austria during the turmoil.

Royal Hungary held that the dethronement of the Habsburgs was invalid.