%0 Journal Article
%@ 1789-6339
%A  Nagy Miklós Mihály
%D 2009
%F acta:29714
%J Közép-európai közlemények
%K Történelemtudomány
%N 2-3
%P 31-40
%T Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia geostratégiai és katonaföldrajzi kényszerei
%U http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/29714/
%V 2
%X In a geopolitical aspect the Austro–Hungary was a complex geostrategical and military geographical formation which had a long political and geographical developing process. In this process coherent and spread geographical factors appeared which entered into balance for  centuries  and  the  effects  of  those  factors  reserved  the  Habsburg  Empire  and  Austro–Hungary. This empire had become a Danubian empire which had some geostrategical factors: for example geographical glacises, balanced territorial features, almost closed military geographical  borders,  centralization  effects  of  geographical  basins  and  central  position. The  author  presents  those  factors,  a  geographical  developing  process  of  the  Austro–Hungary and summarizes the geostrategical position of the Monarchy in the First World War. This  essay  presents  that  the  joint  application  of  these  different  factors  can  help  to  understand the process of the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s existence and its disintegration.
%Z Bibliogr.: p. 38-40.; Abstract