The commando of the VII. corps stationed in Temesvár (today Timișoara). The recruitment area of the corps covered the region of the Hungarian Plain east of the Tisza and south [ … ]

I am cheating a little in this post, since Venice did not come under the possession of the Monarchy during the Great War. Venice lost its independence during the Napoleonic [ … ]

Kassa was the most important city in the eastern half of Upper Hungary already in the 16th century. Its military importance was also outstanding, which it preserved until the late [ … ]

I know the badges of two Honvéd mounted artillery units. For a long time, I couldn’t get much information about the badges, or the units themselves. Then an acquaintance of [ … ]

The XII. corps headquarters was placed in a neo-baroque palace on Schewisgasse (today Bulevardul Victoriei). Nagyszeben was the largest fortified city in Transylvania, so it was not by chance that [ … ]

A beautiful, shield-shaped badge shows a portrait of Archduke Eugen, with the inscription Pussterthal below. It took a little research to find the place and also how the badge can [ … ]

This small village on the border of Bukovina and Hungary, which may have been named after Colonel Dániel Papp, was mentioned in a previous post. I recently noticed a sketch [ … ]

In the series presenting the cities and landscapes of the Monarchy, I can now only show badges on which we see landmarks of other countries. The current badge and the [ … ]

The name of Sarajevo is most famous for the assassination that started the Great War. But Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne, was not brought to this city by [ … ]

Both the badge and the photo are my favorite. I already wrote about the destroyed Salcano valley bridge here. For me, this panorama is the symbol and emblem of the [ … ]