This article investigates the uses of the term “Hungarian Empire” during the long nineteenth century. It argues that the term “empire” emerged in the Hungarian political discourse in the Vormärz era and it was used to denote the imagined integrity of Hungary proper, Transylvania, Croatia, Slavonia, and eventually Dalmatia on the grounds of the historic rights of the Holy Crown of Hungary in the form of a composite nation-state. This usage of the term became ubiquitous after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise. A second meaning pertaining to imperialist foreign policy entered the dictionary of Hungarian political discourse in the late nineteenth century. Fed by the recently created memory of the medieval Hungarian great power, several pressure groups in fin-de-siècle Hungary lobbied for a Hungarian (informal) empire in Southeastern Europe and beyond. While several lobby groups were firmly embedded in the framework of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, some of these visionaries imagined a Hungarian empire independent from the Habsburg structures. A short comparison with the Croatian and Czech political discourses illuminates that the first meaning of empire (composite nation-state) did not differ in substance from contemporary terminology in other Habsburg lands but the second meaning (imperialism) was indeed a unique phenomenon in the Habsburg monarchy.

本文研究了19世纪漫长的“匈牙利帝国”一词的用法。它辩称，“帝国”一词出现在伏尔马斯时代的匈牙利政治话语中，用来表示匈牙利固有的，特兰西瓦尼亚，克罗地亚，斯拉沃尼亚以及最终的达尔马提亚想象中的完整，是基于圣人的历史权利。匈牙利的王国，以一个复合民族国家的形式存在。在奥匈帝国妥协之后，这一术语的使用无处不在。与帝国主义外交政策有关的第二个含义进入了19世纪后期的匈牙利政治话语词典。在最近创建的中世纪匈牙利大国的记忆的带动下，匈牙利鳍鳍式匈牙利的几个压力团体游说到东南欧及其他地区的匈牙利（非正式）帝国。尽管几个游说团体牢牢地扎根在奥匈君主制的框架中，但其中一些有远见的人却想像一个独立于哈布斯堡王朝结构的匈牙利帝国。与克罗地亚和捷克政治话语的简短比较表明，帝国的第一含义（复合民族国家）与哈布斯堡其他地区的当代术语在本质上没有区别，但是第二含义（帝国主义）确实是哈布斯堡的一种独特现象。君主制。