Name
Hungarians call their army Honvédség. The word literally means corps of homeland defenders and originally referred to the revolutionary army established by Lajos Kossuth and the National Defence Committee of the Revolutionary Hungarian Diet in September 1848 during the Hungarian Revolution. In accordance with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, the Hungarians won the right to have their own forces for homeland defence integrated within the Imperial Forces. The Honvédség became a specifically Hungarian army within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, distinct from the Austrian Landwehr and the Imperial and Royal (K.u.K.) army of the empire as a whole.
The term Honvédség continued in use as the name of the Hungarian military after the end of World War I and the dissolution of the empire. The Hungarian army is still called Magyar Honvédség to this day, and the rank equal to private is honvéd.
This term is also used in the name of the Hungarian football club, Budapest Honvéd FC, originally the army football team.
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