Roundtrip in Austria-Hungary

Innichen

There were three provincial rifle regiments in Tyrol. The third was located in the eastern part of the province. Its ...

Graz, HQ of III. corps

The III. Corps was organized from the areas of Carinthia, Styria and the Shore  province. The corps headquarters was in ...

Triglav, Zlatorog

The 2nd Mountain Rifle Regiment (formerly the 27th Landwehr Infantry Regiment) was headquartered in Laibach (now Ljubljana). The regiment’s crew ...

St Lucia (2)

The small town in Slovenia has already been featured here. Now it’s back because an exciting photo shows one of ...

IR 57 in Tarnów

The 57th was a Galician regiment, headquartered in the city of Tarnów. For Hungarians, Tarnów is primarily notable because it ...

Tolmein

Recently, I managed to solve an old puzzle. Not one in fact, but three. The following: What were the so-called ...
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St Lucia

St Lucia was a small town of perhaps thousand people during the Great War located at the confluence of the ...
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Debrecen reloaded

The history of Debrecen, the “civic city”, is full of conflicting events, when “civic rationality” (wealth considerations) were overwritten by ...

Graz clock tower

The clock tower of the city of Graz is one of the hallmarks of the city. Its origins date back ...
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Sveta Maria

It’s been a long time dream of mine to get this fantastically beautiful blue shade enamel badge. When I succeeded, ...
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