Real union
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Real union is a union of two or more
monarchies
.
Unlike personal unions, real unions almost exclusively led to a reduction of
Poland and Denmark respectively, with which each of them had shared a personal union previously. Sometimes, however, a real union came about after a period of political union. The most notable example of such a move is the Kingdom of Hungary (Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen), which achieved equal status to Austria (which exercised control over the "Cisleithanian" crown lands) in Austria-Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867
.
Historical examples
- Crown of Castile (1230–1715)
- Denmark–Norway (1537–1814)
- Kingdom of England / Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800)
- Poland–Lithuania (1569–1795)
- Finland and Russia(1809–1917)
- Poland and Russia (1832–1867):
- The Organic Statute replaced the Constitution of 1815 in the aftermath of the failed November Uprising.
- Austria-Hungary (1867–1918)