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Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – reflections on the Croatian and Hungarian statehood and legal status

The dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 enabled the emergence of new states: “the successor states”. Hungary stopped being member of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy and stepped on the floor of being an independent state. Two changes of regimes followed each other along 1918/1919 that temporarily ruined the legal system of the former Hungarian state. After the political reorganization of the Hungarian state in 1920, Hungary declared the legal continuity of the state under the governorship of Miklós Horthy, existing until 1944 as a Kingdom without a King. On the side of the former Croatian Kingdom a real possibility for unification with the Kingdom of Serbia and Montenegro in a common state was created within the frames of a Yugoslav country. The Austro-Hungarian Empire disappeared under the influence of a number of global political factors (defeat of the Central Powers, whose member was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, along with Germany, Bulgaria and Turkey). Nonetheless, the main reason for its failure was its internal national revolutionary turmoil in October 1918 which led to the secession of some of its previous parts that created a new state body, and formed a new nation- state according to the principle of selfdetermination of people, with a new state rule. The National Council of Slovenians, Croats and Serbs on 19th October 1918 took authority over its territory (de facto), while on the 29th October of that year, the Croatian National Parliament announced a proposal to repeal the state law ties with Austria and Hungary and declared an independent state of Croatia that had access to a common sovereign State of Slovenians, Croats and Serbs (State of SCS). The State of SCS was the first to join the Yugoslav state and was the first step in the unification of all Yugoslav countries into a one state board. The peculiarity of the State of SCS was its temporality, because it was created to unite with Serbia and Montenegro. Regent Alexander declared on 1st December 1918 the unification of Serbia with the countries of the Independent State of SCS into a single Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians.

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