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Louis I, also Louis the Great ( Hungarian: Nagy Lajos; Croatian: Ludovik Veliki; Slovak: Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian ( Polish: Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 1326 – 10 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370. He was the first child of Charles I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of ...
During World War II, the Kingdom of Hungary was a member of the Axis powers. [1] In the 1930s, the Kingdom of Hungary relied on increased trade with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany to pull itself out of the Great Depression. Hungarian politics and foreign policy had become more stridently nationalistic by 1938, and Hungary adopted an irredentist ...
Louis I the Great Croatian: Ludovik I) (March 5, 1326, Visegrád – September 10, 1382, Nagyszombat/Trnava) was King of Hungary, King of Croatia, Dalmatia, Jerusalem and Sicily from 1342 and of King of Poland from 1370. Louis was the head of the senior branch of the Angevin dynasty.
During World War II Hungary came under German occupation in 1944, then under Soviet occupation until the end of the war. After World War II, the Second Hungarian Republic was established within Hungary's current-day borders as a socialist People's Republic, lasting from 1949 to the end of communism in Hungary in 1989.
In 1344, Louis I of Hungary, who would rule from 1342–1382 and earn the epithet "the Great", invaded Wallachia and Moldavia and established a system of vassalage. Louis and his 80,000 strong army repelled the Serbian Dušan's armies in the duchies of Mačva and principality of Travunia in 1349.
Hungary between the World Wars. The interwar period in Hungary, spanning from 1919 to 1944, was marked by significant political and territorial changes. After World War I, the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 drastically reduced Hungary's territory and population, leading to widespread resentment.
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Jan 15, 2024 · 1342 Jul 16. Reign of Louis I of Hungary. Visegrád, Hungary. Louis I inherited a centralized kingdom and a rich treasury from his father. During the first years of his reign, Louis launched a crusade against the Lithuanians and restored royal power in Croatia; his troops defeated a Tatar army, expanding his authority towards the Black Sea.
