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Hungaricana
The Hungarian cultural heritage portal — maps, censuses, urbaria and archival finding aids for the whole Kingdom of Hungary, not today's borders.
Last checked 2026-09-22. Tell us if this has changed.
The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1813–1918 Austria–Hungary — Fiume a Hungarian corpus separatum — THE TRAP. Rijeka/Fiume was governed from BUDAPEST, not Vienna or Zagreb, from 1779. Its administrative records are Hungarian — which is why Hungaricana finds them and Croatian catalogues sometimes do not.
- 1699–1867 Habsburg — Kingdom of Hungary
- 1867–1918 Austria–Hungary — the Hungarian half
- 1918–1945 Hungary after Trianon — THE TRAP, AND IT IS THE LARGEST ON THIS MAP. Trianon in 1920 moved TWO THIRDS of the Kingdom of Hungary to Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. A village that was Hungarian in 1890 keeps its pre-1920 registers in Budapest AND its later ones in Bucharest, Bratislava or Belgrade — under a name that also changed.
- 1989–2026 Hungary
- 1699–1867 Habsburg — Grand Principality of Transylvania
- 1867–1918 Austria–Hungary — the Hungarian half
- 1918–2026 Romania — THE TRAP. Pre-1918 records are HUNGARIAN and largely at Budapest; post-1918 are ROMANIAN and at the county archives. A family in one village, unmoved, is filed in two countries and two languages either side of 1918 — and the village has a Hungarian name, a Romanian name and often a German one.
- 1878–1908 Austria-Hungary — occupation under Ottoman sovereignty — THE TRAP, and it is a filing trap. Occupied in 1878 but not annexed until 1908, Bosnia was administered by the joint Imperial finance ministry in VIENNA rather than by Austria or by Hungary. Its paper is therefore in neither national series — look in the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv and in Sarajevo, not in Budapest.
- 1699–1848 Habsburg Hungary and the Military Frontier — THE TRAP, and it is the reason this region needs its own entry. The Military Frontier was administered from VIENNA by the war ministry, not from Buda by the Hungarian county — so a family in a Grenzer village has military records where its neighbours ten kilometres away have county ones. The eighteenth-century resettlement brought German, Hungarian, Serb, Slovak and Romanian colonists into the same district, each with their own parish and their own language of register.
- 1848–1918 Austria-Hungary — the Voivodeship, then Hungarian counties
- 1941–1944 Partitioned — Hungary in the north, German Banat, Croatia in the west
- 1881–1918 Croatia-Slavonia, within Hungary
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