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Austria–Hungary

1867–1918 empire in Central Europe

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Nov 15, 2025
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is it true that interwar Hungary was a kingdom without a king and a landlocked nation ruled by an admiral?

Yes — interwar Hungary was officially a restored Kingdom without an active monarch, and its head of state from 1920 to 1944 was Admiral Miklós Horthy, a former Austro‑Hungarian naval officer who serve...

Jan 31, 2026

Franz Joseph von Bülow personal life, ethnicity and religion

was a German-born author, soldier and early homosexual-rights activist who lived from 1861 to 1915, according to the available biographical entry . Reporting on him is sparse in the provided material ...

Jan 18, 2026

World War 1

World War I erupted after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 but was the product of decades of militarism, imperial rivalry, entangled alliances and rising nationalism that transfor...

Nov 15, 2025

What was Robert Maxwell's birth name?

Robert Maxwell was born with a Central European, Jewish name—most sources give variants of Jan/Ján (or Ludvík) Hoch: full forms reported include "Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch" and shorter versions s...

Nov 15, 2025

Why did tourists visit war-torn Sarajevo in the 1990s?

Tourists visited war‑torn Sarajevo in and after the 1990s for reasons that combined dark curiosity about the Siege and Bosnian War (museums, the Tunnel, Sniper Alley, memorial sites) with more convent...

Nov 6, 2025

What caused WW1?

The outbreak of World War I cannot be pinned to a single cause: historians summarize a mix of , with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand serving as the immediate spark that set a chain react...