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Grenz infantry or Grenzers or Granichary (from German: Grenzer "border guard" or "frontiersman"; Serbo-Croatian: graničari, krajišnici, Serbian Cyrillic: граничари, крајишници, Russian Cyrillic: граничары) were light infantry troops who came from the Military Frontier in the Habsburg monarchy (later the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary). This borderland formed a buffer zone between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire, and the troops were originally raised to defend their homelands against the Ottoman Turks. When there was no danger of war against the Ottomans, the Grenzer regiments were employed by the Habsburgs in other theatres of war, although one battalion of each regiment would always remain guarding the border.

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  • Grenz infantry (en)
  • Infantería Grenz (es)
  • Граничары (ru)
  • Gränsinfanteri (sv)
  • Граничари (uk)
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  • La infantería Grenz o Grenzer (en croata, Krajišnici or Graničari) fueron tropas de infantería ligera provenientes de las fronteras militares de Croacia y Transilvania en la Monarquía Habsburgo (más adelante del Imperio austríaco y el Imperio austrohúngaro). Esta frontera formaba una zona tampón entre la Europa Cristiana y el Imperio otomano. Estas tropas fueron formadas inicialmente para defender a Austria de los turcos otomanos. Cuando no existía la amenaza de guerra con los otomanos, los regimientos Grenzer eran empleados por los Habsburgos en otros frentes de guerra, aunque un batallón de cada regimiento síempre se quedaba a resguardar la frontera. (es)
  • Gränsinfanteri (tyska: grenzer; kroatiska: graničari, krajišinici) var lätta infanteriförband som sattes upp av den habsburgska monarkin vid slutet av 1700-talet för att försvara gränsen mot Osmanska riket. Gränsinfanteriet upplöstes formellt efter Österrike-Ungerns nederlag i första världskriget. (sv)
  • Граничари — військово-корпоративна спільнота, основне населення Військового кордону другої половини XV ст. — другої половини XIX ст. Вони були звільнені від феодальних повинностей, але натомість зобов'язувались захищати кордон від нападів турків. За своїм статусом були проміжним, між селянством та шляхтою станом. (uk)
  • Гранича́ры, также гранычары, — обобщенное название пограничников и иррегулярных войск в Австрии, основного населения Военной границы Габсбургской империи (сербов и хорватов). Граничары на османской (турецкой) границе, из числа хорватской стражи, назывались богмеи. (ru)
  • Grenz infantry or Grenzers or Granichary (from German: Grenzer "border guard" or "frontiersman"; Serbo-Croatian: graničari, krajišnici, Serbian Cyrillic: граничари, крајишници, Russian Cyrillic: граничары) were light infantry troops who came from the Military Frontier in the Habsburg monarchy (later the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary). This borderland formed a buffer zone between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire, and the troops were originally raised to defend their homelands against the Ottoman Turks. When there was no danger of war against the Ottomans, the Grenzer regiments were employed by the Habsburgs in other theatres of war, although one battalion of each regiment would always remain guarding the border. (en)
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  • Grenz infantry (en)
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  • Grenzers / Krajišnici (en)
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Serbian_frontiersman_in_Syrmia,_1742.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Militargrenze,_Wojwodowena_und_Banat.jpg
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