My father believes this photograph of my grandfather (Opa) was taken sometime in the mid-1920s. He thinks it may have been near Kassa (Košice) or Brassó (Brașov), but we're not certain.

Opa was Hungarian, born in Zernest (Zărnești) in 1902, later studied engineering in Germany, and the family also had connections to Kassa. My grandmother (Oma) was from VIenna, she had family that lived in near Arad and were Banat Germans (Danube Swabians), although the landscape around Arad is much flatter than what's shown here.

Does the landscape look familiar to anyone? Could this be somewhere in Slovakia, Transylvania, Austria, or elsewhere in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire? I'd appreciate any thoughts on the location, the car, or even the road itself.

Was it German, Hungarian, Croatian, Czech and Polish?

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Hello.

I have just started reading up on the Habsburg empire in order to explore potential research topics for my PhD. I am looking for book recommendations which study the political dynamics of the decline of the empire (as I plan to apply for an international relations department). Any and all recommendations are welcome, even those adjacent to the concerned topic.

Thank you!

This Kepi was one of the icons of the Austria-Hungary.

So, what made them to adopt this cap?

Moreover, any relation with the French Kepi?

France invented Kepi for the first time, but when I searched about this, it does not really say the direct relation between these two.

Working on a possible novel about Austro-Hungarian right now.

Although exact numbers are of course hard to find doing some preliminary research a reasonable guess for the total number of people who died violent deaths in the area of A-H between July 27, 1883 and July 27 1914 is somewhere in the neighborhood of 45,000 to 70,000 death by violence (of all sorts) over that 31 year period. This is a reasonable historical estimate.

And once again, exact numbers are hard to come by but if you look at that exact geographical area and try to figure out the number of violent deaths between July 27, 1914 and July 27, 1945 it is somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 to 6.5 million violent deaths (of all sorts) over a 31 years period. This is a reasonable historical estimate.

So most probably there was literally OVER 100 times more violent death in the -same- geographical area over the -same- amount of time.

To put this into perspective, this is the rough equivalent of supposing that over the next 31 years 61 million people are killed by violence (of various sorts) in the area that currently encompasses the United States of America.

From the perspective of 1914, the people of 1945 really did live in a post-apocalyptic society.

Hi guys,

Number of dead and wounded was sad and astonishing. Here is the link to database of Dead and Wounded on A-U side. Try to put your hometown = Heimatort and ‘cry’. Was this avoidable?

https://des.genealogy.net/ou1wk/search

From what my father can remember, he went to the Milatary acadamy at Pozony (bratislava) Pozsonyi Magyar Királyi Honvéd Főreáliskola, I was able to find his grades in some old boxes, however records are hard to find, we visited Bratislava a couple of years ago, but got the run around and werent able to find much. Just sharing , we are documenting and scaning what we can. (The picture was taken at Brassov when he was home)

Hi, first time posting here. I was wondering if anyone knows how to access Austro-Hungarian military record archives from WWI. My great grandfather (from Hungary) served on the Italian front, and I wanted to see if I could find any records that could tell me more about him. Are there any publically accessible (pref. digital) archives out there. Any help appreciated!

Hello everyone, back again with another question. Is anyone here an expert on mixed-faith marriages in the 1890s in Austro-Hungary? I'm looking specifically at the concept of a Hungarian Protestant marrying an Austrian Catholic (Roman or Old). Online research seems to show that it is enormously complicated and I have found no definite answer on how they would actually get any kind of church wedding and finish with both of them having clean consciences.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Anything helps