"The Austro-Hungarian Army (Landstreitkräfte Österreich-Ungarns (German), literally "Ground Forces of the Austro-Hungarians"; Császári és Királyi Hadsereg (Hungarian), literally "Imperial and Royal Army") was the ground force of the ...
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Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy from 1867 to 1918. It was composed of three parts: the joint army (Gemeinsame Armee, "Common Army", recruited from all parts of the country), the Imperial Austrian Landwehr (recruited from Cisleithania), and the Royal Hungarian Honvéd (recruited from Transleithania).
In the wake of fighting between the Austrian Empire and the Hungarian Kingdom and the two decades of uneasy co-existence following, Hungarian soldiers served either in mixed units or were stationed away from Hungarian areas. With the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 the new tripartite army was brought into being. It existed until the disestablishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire following World War I in 1918." - (en.wikipedia.org 07.07.2022)
