As he spoke there listened 240 Senators, divided into six groups as follows: 1) the 4 Archdukes, by hereditary right;* and 34 representatives of the old Hungarian nobility, by election from that ...

The Transylvanian Trilogy, written by her father Count Miklós Bánffy, is a warts-and-all portrait of the decline of the Hungarian nobility in the period preceding the Great War. The three novels ...

Translations can sometimes go wrong and many people believe the Kuvasz is not the real Hungarian spelling. Kawasz is the Turkish word meaning nobility’s armed guard and is thought to be the real ...

Theoretically the decline of the Austro-Hungarian nobility before and after World War I ought to make equally pungent fiction. Unfortunately this is only sometimes the case in Author de Born’s ...