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Oct 2001 time: 06:15
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Last edited by pithorr on 23-10-2001 at 18:00
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pithorr
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Katowice, Poland
Oct 2001 time: 06:15
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quote: Originally posted by VetLegion
1. As LaRusso pointed out, fighting the turks was an effort on entire balkans, this 'hungaria did it alone' is as dumb as 'poland did it alone' or any other
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Excuse me, but:
1. Poland is not a Balkan state.
2. From the late 1500s to the end of 1600s Poland was fighting with Turks practically alone (in land and in Europe, Persia is the another case). Austria also did but both countries never fought together till Vienna siege in 1683. Hungary lost
Well, Hungary is an interesting civ (unique lenguage, DNA , culture, cuisine , etc.) and more worth to be included in the game than Zulus or Sioux. However Poland is once more worth of course .
Last edited by pithorr on 19-10-2001 at 23:43
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OneFootInTheGrave
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Kuzelj
Nov 2000 time: 05:15
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BTw.... hungary from 1102 to 1514 was not just Hungary but a Croat-Hungarian empire. And the Hungarian kings used the armies from both countries for expansion, so a claim to a single big Hungary is questionable at leat.
In that year 1102 the Hungarian King was made a king of Hungary and Croatia after the last Croatian King was left without a son, and in the following struggle the barons in favour of the Hungarian king becoming Croatian king prevailed (killing the croatian pretender Peter who tried to claim the throne the late Croatian King Zvonimir's wife was sister from the Hungarian king and therefore Hungarian king had a claim to the throne that way)
So until 1514 Croatian-Hungarian kingdom (or Hungaro -Croatian) was the actual country and the only drawback was that the capital was in Budapest, which helps the middle-ages big Hungary myth. Anyway in 200 years the Arpad hungarian bloodline dried up of rightful descendants and the Croatian barons brought in the king of Naples to be Croat-Hungarian King for example. And other nationalites were our kings as was later one of the Luxembourgh dynasty monarchs. And a few kings in between with the last big one being Matijas Hunyadi Korvin who actually conquered Wien and made it the new capital of the kingdom.
Anyway Turks came and we both fought lost the king and chose the Habsburg Monarch to be our King (which some of them were before that point anyway) which they stayed this time around until WW1 and Croatia was in the war more or less for the next 500 years with the Turks which weakened the country considerably, especially after the failed attempt by the Croatian barons in 18 th century to overthrow the Habsburg monarch.
As the high point in Hungarian history is the year 1867/68 when you actually got the Habsburghs into a corner and made them share the power with Hungarian parliament. At that point Croatia suffered immensly with the 1868 deal, where we were made to make an very infavourable deal with the Hungarians (since Croats helped the crown in 1848 to defeat the first Hungarian revolution) and lost a lot of our independance within the monarchy. So you Hungarians can praise that period as your Golden Age that you earned on the backs of others (well like everyone else, but they acknowledge that, so should you) which was late 19th and early 20th century. However after WW1 I guess that Hungary was quite severely cut down that even all the hungarians did not get live in Hungary, but ratehr parts were given to the Yugoslavian crown and Romania. But thats history too.
So I would find it not so accurate to have a Hungarian Civ on purely civilization terms but well this is only a game afterall.
Last edited by OneFootInTheGrave on 26-10-2001 at 14:16
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MagyarCrusader
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Fascist
Jan 1970 time: 21:15
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To a certain extent I agree with what OneFootintheGrave said. However back then, I seriously doubt it was refered to as "Hungarian-Croat Empire". For one thing, it was a Kingdom established by Stephen I and sanctioned by the pope. Before the 1800s, rulers of Europe could give a crap about nationality and nationalism, as Latin was the official language of every country and the church was the most important aspect of life. Calling the country a Hungarian-Croat empire is taking. a modern and patriotic look at history. Besides, Hungarian nobles gave the Hungarian crown to the Hapsburgs after Mohács, similar to the Croats giving their crown to the Hungarian king. However, history does not refer to the Austrian empire as being the "Austro-Hungarian Empire" at this point just because they share the same ruler. It was a formal and peaceful annexation. The Austrian Empire didn't become the Austro-Hungarian empire until compromises were made for the Hungarians to have an independent self governing body. This never happened for the Croatians. However, Croatians were the only people who lived in historic Hungary who actually had their own country before Hungary was established, while Hungarian nobles governed across the whole country, including parts that today are under foreign occupation, Croatian nobles governed over most of modern day Croatia because their people were established before they became a part of Hungary, and Hungarians never settled there. Another "interesting" point, according to censuses in the 1900s, Hungarian communities, (whether they made up the majority or minority of the region) existed throughout the entire country, including the parts taken by Czechoslovakia, Serbia and Romania, but there were practically none in Croatia...
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