Imperial and Royal Infantry

The Imperial and Royal Infantry (German: k.u.k. Infanterie) was an arm of the Common Army of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and comprised two elements:

• the German regiments that recruited from those kingdoms and lands represented in the Austrian Reichsrat (the territory known as Cisleithania)
• the Hungarian regiments, whose personnel came from Hungary and those territories claimed by Hungary in Romania (i.e. Transylvania and Banat), parts of Croatia and Serbia, as well that region of Slovakia known then as Upper Hungary, the so-called lands of the Hungarian crown (also known as Transleithania).