Transylvanian Military Frontier

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Transylvanian Military Frontier
1762–1851

The Frontier in 1817, with the different regiments shown
History 
• Established
1762
• Disestablished
1851
Today part ofRomania

The Transylvanian Military Frontier (Romanian: Granița Militară Transilvăneană; German: Siebenbürgische Militärgrenze; Hungarian: Erdélyi határőrvidék) was a territory in the Habsburg monarchy. It was a section of the Habsburg Military Frontier.

History

It was founded in 1762 from territories that had been part of the Habsburg Principality of Transylvania. After it was abolished, the territory of the Transylvanian Military Frontier was reincorporated into the principality.

Borders

Within the Habsburg monarchy the Transylvanian Military Frontier bordered the

Galicia and Lodomeria until 1849, a separate duchy thereafter) in the northeast. It also bordered the Ottoman vassal principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia
in the southeast.

Regiments

Old headquarters of the 1st Romanian Border Guards Regiment in Orlat

The Transylvanian Military Frontier was composed of two Romanian regiments, two Székely regiments, and a Hussars regiment, garrisoned as follows:

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