The Black Army (Hungarian: Fekete sereg, pronounced [ˈfɛkɛtɛ ˈʃɛrɛɡ], Latin: Legio Nigra), also called the Black Legion/Regiment – were the military forces...
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Look up Black Army in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Black Army may refer to several different groups and affiliations: Black Army of Hungary, the royal...
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States Black Legion (Ustaše militia), a 1941 Croatian military unit active during World War II in Yugoslavia Black Army of Hungary, an army of the Kingdom...
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defeat of the Ottomans at the Siege of Belgrade. The Noon Bell commemorates the fallen Christian warriors. In the 15th century, the Black Army of Hungary was...
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the Hungarian Armed Forces is under a unified command structure. The Ministry of Defence maintains the political and civil control over the army. A subordinate...
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Austria-Hungary did not have a common flag – a "national flag" could not exist since the Dual Monarchy consisted of two sovereign states. However, the black-gold...
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large parts of the Holy Roman Empire. King Matthias' standing professional mercenary army was called the Black Army of Hungary (Hungarian: Fekete sereg)...
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mercenary standing army, the Black Army of Hungary, was an unusually large army for its time, and it conquered Vienna as well as parts of Austria and Bohemia...
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Hungary. Hungary portal Flag of Hungary Flags of Hungarian history Coat of arms of Hungary National symbols of Hungary Media related to Flags of Hungary at...
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Matthias Corvinus (redirect from Matthias I Corvinus of Hungary)
established one of the earliest professional standing armies of medieval Europe (the Black Army of Hungary), reformed the administration of justice, reduced...
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hero of the battle was Pál Kinizsi, the legendary Hungarian general and a man of Herculean strength in the service of Matthias Corvinus' Black Army of Hungary...
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of Hungary named his famous library (Bibliotheca Corviniana) after the bird. It might have inspired the uniform and name of his mercenary army (Black...
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up and maintain a standing army. Consisting of mainly Czech, German and Hungarian mercenaries, his "Black Army" was one of the first professional military...
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Hussar (redirect from Hungarian Hussar)
cavalry. The first hussar regiments comprised the light cavalry of the Black Army of Hungary. Under Corvinus's command, the hussars took part in the war against...
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Ottoman wars in Europe (redirect from Ottoman conquest of the Balkans)
professional mercenary army was called the Black Army of Hungary Matthias recognized the importance and key role of early firearms in the infantry, which greatly...
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oppose Matthias' famous standing professional army, the Black Army of Hungary. After the Hungarian occupation of Vienna, Albrecht's task was to reconquer the...
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Austria-Hungary was a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states with a single monarch who was titled both emperor of Austria and King of Hungary...
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self-disarmament of the Hungarian army by the pacifist Hungarian prime minister Count Mihály Károlyi, the Allies of World War I intended that Romania's Army, the...
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during the reign of king Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (r. 1458–1490). One in four soldiers in the infantry of the Black Army of Hungary wielded an arquebus...
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during the reign of King Matthias I Corvinus of Hungary. So the first Hussar regiments were the light cavalry of the Black Army of Hungary. Under his command...
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Black Army of Hungary, an early standing mercenary force under capable commanders like Stephen V Báthory or Lawrence of Ilok, which conquered most of...
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pagan uprising in Hungary 1437 – Transylvanian peasant revolt led by Antal Nagy de Buda 1492–93 – Revolt of the Black Army of Hungary 1514 – Peasant revolt...
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Dupuy, Harper Encyclopedia of Military History (1993) Pál, Földi (2015). A Fekete Sereg (The Black Army). Budapest, Hungary: Csengőkert Kiadó. pp. 2–208...
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Wagon fort (redirect from Wagenburg of the Hussites)
the Hungarians and Poles who had confronted the destructive forces of Hussites, hired thousands of Czech mercenaries (such as into the Black Army of Hungary)...
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Late Middle Ages (section The Black Death)
beginning of the 15th century. King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary led the largest army of mercenaries of the time, the Black Army of Hungary, which he...
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or Wladislas (Hungarian: II. Ulászló; 1 March 1456 – 13 March 1516), was King of Bohemia from 1471 to 1516 and King of Hungary and of Croatia from 1490...
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Pike and shot (category Warfare of the early modern period)
page. The Black Army of Hungary was one of the first forces to use the arquebus to a large degree. In its 1477 to 1488 wars, 25 percent of its soldiers...
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The Kingdom of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyar Királyság), referred to retrospectively as the Regency and the Horthy era, existed as a country from 1920 to...
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ˈkaʁl]; Hungarian: Ferenc József Károly [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈjoːʒɛf ˈkaːroj]; 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the...
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rampaging gangs of mercenaries (often remaining from the Hussite Wars). In 1485, the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus and the Black Army of Hungary conquered...
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