Leitha

The Leitha (; , formerly ; ; Czech and ) is a river in Austria and Hungary, a right tributary of the Danube. It is long ( including its source river Schwarza). Its basin area is .

Cisleithania, officially The Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council (), was the northern and western part of Austria-Hungary, the Dual Monarchy created in the Compromise of 1867—as distinguished from Transleithania (i.e., the Hungarian Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen east of ["beyond"] the Leitha River). This name for the region was a common, but unofficial one.

part of Austria-Hungary

mountain range

thumb|In 1921, Major Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek leads a detachment of mounted gendarmes through Sopron in support of the West-Hungarians who are protesting the Trianon Treaty which would turn over West Hungary to Austria. thumb|A provisional 20 Hungarian forint|forint stamp, issued on 12 October 1921 thumb|A provisional 2.5 forint stamp thumb|Pál Prónay, leader of the Rongyos Gárda Lajtabánság (; ), or the Banate of Leitha, was a short-lived western Hungarian state in the region that today forms the Austrian state of Burgenland. It existed between 4 October and 10 November 1921, following the Tre