Hungarian State

Hungarian State
Magyar Állam (Hungarian)
1849
Anthem: "Himnusz" (Hungarian)
(English: "Hymn")
A map of the revolutionary Hungarian State before the Austro-Russian counteroffensive
A map of the revolutionary Hungarian State before the Austro-Russian counteroffensive
StatusUnrecognised state
CapitalBuda
Capital-in-exileDebrecen, Szeged, Arad
Common languages
Religion
Demonym(s)Hungarian
GovernmentRevolutionary provisional governmenta
Governor-President of Hungary 
• 14 April 1849 – 11 August 1849
Lajos Kossuth
• 11 August 1849 – 13 August 1849
Artúr Görgeyb
Prime Minister 
• 2 May 1849 – 11 August 1849
Bertalan Szemere
LegislatureDiet
Historical eraRevolutions of 1848
14 April 1849
13 August 1849
Area
• Total
282,870 km2 (109,220 sq mi)[1]
(Kingdom of Hungary)
Population
• c. 1840 estimate
12,880,406[2]
(Kingdom of Hungary)
CurrencyKrajcár
ISO 3166 codeHU
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867)
Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867)
Today part ofHungary
  1. In order to avoid tensions between monarchist and republican factions, the form of government was to be decided later.
  2. as dictator

The Hungarian State (Hungarian: Magyar Állam, archaically Magyar Álladalom) was a short-lived unrecognised state that existed for 4 months in the last phase of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848–49.

  1. ^ Emil Valkovics:Demography of contemporary Hungarian society Archived 1 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine, 1996, p. 15
  2. ^ (in Hungarian) Elek Fényes, Magyarország' statistikája, Pest : Trattner-Kérolyi Tulajdona, 1842 (page 33).