Hungary

In the old days, Hungary was part of the Roman province of Pannonia. In the late 19th century, it was captured by the Magyars. The first Hungarian king was Istvan I (St Stephen), crowned in the year 1000. For nearly 300 years, the Hungarian kingdom was independent and had a strong royal power, but after the Mongolian invasion of 1241, the state began to weaken. In 1521, Turkey started a war against the Hungarian king and delivered a number of defeats upon the Hungarians, to be followed by the Hungarian kingdom virtually falling apart into several relatively independent regions and remaining in that condition for nearly 150 years. The Hungarian army combined the features of European troops with Turkish army combat tactics. Besides, it had peculiar national traits subsequently borrowed by all the European armies. One of these borrowings was the national Hungarian light cavalry, widely known as the hussars. Also, the European armies, the Austrian one in particular, eagerly recruited subdivisions of national Hungarian light infantry, which became possible after the state power had been taken by the Austrian royal Habsburg family in 1686.

Unique units - Kuruc, Monted Pandur, Pandur, Hajduk