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 the Kingdom of Hungary (including the former Principality of Transylvania and the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschvar), as wel as from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and the City of Fiume, the so-called Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen (also known as Transleithania).