Imperial and Royal Hussars

Together with the Dragoons and Uhlans, the Imperial and Royal Hussars (German: k.u.k.

The Austrian monarchy, weakened by losing the war against Prussia in 1866, had to effectively guarantee the autonomy of Kingdom of Hungary in the so-called Compromise of 15 March 1867.

Following the signing of the Compromise, the Austrian half of the Empire also started to build an army, the Imperial-Royal Landwehr (German: k.k.

The Common Army had 16 hussar regiments and the Royal Hungarian Landwehr had ten.

By tradition, the majority of the hussars were recruited from the Hungarian lands (modern-day Hungary, Slovakia and parts of Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Austria and Poland).