crownland

/ ˈkraʊnˌlænd /

noun

1. a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary

Example Sentences

Technically each time he crossed it he would be passing from the Margraviate of Moravia to the Kingdom of Hungary, from one Habsburg crownland to another.

From BBC

This changed after the introduction of the liberal Austrian constitution in 1867, which made Galicia a crownland with its own regional parliament.

From Economist

The largest and most populous crownland of the Austro-Hungarian empire, occupying a swathe of what is now south-east Poland and far western Ukraine, was also by a large margin its most backward province.

From Economist

Itself a crownland of Austria, returning eleven members to the Austrian parliament, it is severed geographically from the other Austrian lands by the Hungarian kingdom of Croatia.

From Project Gutenberg

The local diet, of which the archbishop of G�rz is a member ex-officio, is composed of 22 members, and the crownland sends 5 deputies to the Reichsrat at Vienna.

From Project Gutenberg