imperial-royal

adjective

Pertaining to the central government of Austria-Hungary.

Meanings

adjectiveimperial-royal (not comparable)

alternative imperial royal

  1. historicalnot comparablePertaining to the central government of Austria-Hungary.

    This administration was headed by the Imperial-Royal government in Vienna and the Austrian emperor.

    2018, Benno Gammerl, translated by Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser, Subjects, Citizens, and Others: Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867–1918, →ISBN, page 62
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    […] Emperor Napoleon had given the assurance, in consequence of the emphatic representations of the Imperial-Royal Ambassador, that the last obstacles to a conclusion, in so far as they depended upon France, should speedily be removed.

    1868, “Introduction”, in Austrian Red-Book: Diplomatic Correspondence of the Imperial-Royal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, from November 1866 to 31st December 1867, page 33

    For example, Hungarians still had to serve in a joint imperial-royal army. They also had to accept financial decisions made by imperial-royal banks in Vienna.

    2006, Paul Hanebrink, In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944, →ISBN, page 12

Origin

  1. Germankaiserlich-königlich
  2. Englishimperial-royal

Calque of German kaiserlich-königlich, from kaiserlich und königlich, referring to the monarch’s titles, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary.

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