Militärgrenze

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Militärgrenze was a militarized borderland of the Habsburg Monarchy organized as a buffer zone against the Ottoman Empire and settled largely by frontier soldiers and their families.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative unit of the Habsburg Monarchy
border region
military frontier
borderedBy Kingdom of Croatia
Kingdom of Hungary
Ottoman Empire
country Austria-Hungary
Austrian Empire
Habsburg Monarchy
dissolvedInto Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
linked to: Kingdom of Croatia

civilian counties of Hungary
endTime 1873
1881
19th century
feature hereditary military service obligations
land grants to military settlers
self-governing village communities under military law
governedBy Aulic War Council
Habsburg military authorities
hasCapital Karlovac (for Croatian-Slavonian sections)
linked to: Karlovac

Timișoara (for Banat section)
linked to: Timișoara
hasPart Banat Military Frontier
Croatian Military Frontier
Karlovac Generalate
Slavonian Military Frontier
Tisa–Mureș Military Frontier
Transylvanian Military Frontier
Varaždin Generalate
historicalPeriod 18th century
19th century
Early modern period
influenced Habsburg–Ottoman military balance
ethnic composition of Croatia
ethnic composition of Vojvodina
knownAs Krajina
linked to: Krajina region

Military Frontier
Vojna krajina
languageUsed Croatian
German
Serbian
legalStatus directly subordinated to the Habsburg military command
separate from civilian provincial administration
locatedIn Balkans
Banat
Central Europe
Kingdom of Croatia
Kingdom of Slavonia
linked to: Duchy of Slavonia

Southeastern Europe
linked to: Balkans

Transylvania
militaryFunction frontier defense system
recruitment area for Habsburg army
militaryUnitType Grenz hussars
linked to: Hussars

Grenz infantry
partOf Austria-Hungary
Austrian Empire
Habsburg Monarchy
purpose buffer zone between Habsburg and Ottoman territories
defense against the Ottoman Empire
religion Eastern Orthodoxy
Roman Catholicism
settledBy Croats
Germans
Grenzer
Hungarians
Romanians
Serbs
Vlachs
linked to: Balkan Vlachs

frontier soldiers
startTime 16th century
around 1578

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