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1897-1898, Hungarian Soldiers on Crete, The Austro-Hungarian participation in the Cretan Question
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1897-1898, Hungarian Soldiers on Crete, The Austro-Hungarian participation in the Cretan Question
In early April 1897, 2.500 soldiers from six European countries – including the then Austro-Hungarian Empire – landed on Crete, charged with bringing an end to hostilities between Christians and Muslims. Two months earlier, they had been preceded by the arrival of European warships and the landing of small forces of marines, as the Great Powers of the time were concerned that the flaring up of the Cretan Question could provoke new tensions on the European continent. The Austro-Hungarian troop presence on Crete lasted for about a year, since their military divisions withdrew from the island in mid-April 1898.
Hungary holds the presidency of the European Union for the first six months of 2011. On the occasion of this event, the Society of Cretan Historical Studies and the Hungarian Institute & Museum of Military History in Budapest co-organized “1897-1898, Hungarian Soldiers on Crete. The Austro-Hungarian Participation in the Cretan Question”, an exhibition that was inaugurated at the Historical Museum of Crete on 31 March 2011.
Rare photographic material from the military archives of Vienna and Budapest, as well as from the Historical Archive of Crete and the Society of Cretan Historical Studies, military and civilian artefacts and documents make up the main body of the exhibition, which is further accompanied by wall projections of visual material and two touch screens.
