Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen

Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen
*A Magyar Szent Korona Országai* (Hungarian)
*Länder der Krone des Heiligen Stephan* (German)
*Zemlje krune svetog Stjepana* (Croatian)
Земље круне Светог Стефана (Serbian)
*Krajiny Svätoštefanskej koruny* (Slovak)
*Țările Coroanei Sfântului Ștefan* (Romanian)
Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen A Magyar Szent Korona Országai (Hungarian); Länder der Krone des Heiligen Stephan (German); Zemlje krune svetog Stjepana (Croatian); Земље круне Светог Стефана (Serbian); Krajiny Svätoštefanskej koruny (Slovak); Țările Coroanei Sfântului Ștefan (Romanian);
1867–1918
	Top: Flag of Hungary; Bottom: Flag of Croatia-Slavonia Coat of arms; (1915–1918)
	Motto: Regnum Mariae Patrona Hungariae; ("Kingdom of Mary, the Patroness of Hungary")
	Anthem: "Himnusz";
	Territory of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia in green; (Condominium of Bosnia-Herzegovina in purple)
Status	Component of Austria-Hungary
Capital and largest city	Budapest
Official languages	Hungarian; Croatian (Croatia-Slavonia); Italian (Fiume); Other spoken languages:; Bosnian; Carpathian Romani; German; Polish; Romanian; Ruthenian; Serbian; Slovak; Slovene; Yiddish;
Religion	Latin Catholicism, Calvinism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism, Unitarianism, and Judaism
Government	Constitutional monarchy
King
• 1867–1916	Franz Joseph I
• 1916–1918	Karl IV
Ministers-President
• 1867–1871 (first)	Gyula Andrássy
• 1918 (last)	Mihály Károlyi
Legislature	Diet
• Upper house	House of Magnates
• Lower house	House of Representatives
Historical era	New Imperialism
• Austro-Hungarian Compromise	30 March 1867
• Croatian–Hungarian Settlement	17 November 1868
• Bosnian Crisis	6 October 1908 – 31 March 1909
• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand	28 June 1914
• Declaration of War on Serbia	28 July 1914
• Dissolution of Austria-Hungary	31 October 1918
• Eckartsau Declaration	13 November 1918
• Monarchy abolished	16 November 1918
• Treaty of Trianon	4 June 1920
Currency	Forint (1867–1892); Korona (1892–1918);
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867)
	Austrian Empire
	Principality of Transylvania (1711–1867)
First Hungarian Republic
State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
First Czechoslovak Republic
Second Polish Republic
Kingdom of Romania
Italian Regency of Carnaro

The Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen (Hungarian: a Szent Korona Országai), informally Transleithania (meaning the lands or region "beyond" the Leitha River), were the Hungarian territories of Austria-Hungary, throughout the latter's entire existence (30 March 1867 – 16 November 1918), and which disintegrated following its dissolution. The name referenced the historic coronation crown of Hungary, known as the Crown of Saint Stephen of Hungary, which had a symbolic importance to the Kingdom of Hungary.

According to the First Article of the Croatian–Hungarian Settlement of 1868, this territory, also called Arch-Kingdom of Hungary (Archiregnum Hungaricum, pursuant to Medieval Latin terminology), was officially defined as "a state union of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia". Though Dalmatia actually lay outside the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, being part of Cisleithania, the Austrian half of the empire, it was nevertheless included in its name, due to a long political campaign seeking recognition of the Triune Kingdom, which consisted of a united Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia.

^ Adeleye, Gabriel G. (1999). World Dictionary of Foreign Expressions, Thomas J. Sienkewicz and James T. McDonough, Jr., Eds., Wauconda, Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-86516-422-3.

[1] Adeleye, Gabriel G. (1999). World Dictionary of Foreign Expressions, Thomas J. Sienkewicz and James T. McDonough, Jr., Eds., Wauconda, Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-86516-422-3.

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