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Pandur
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Also known as Pandours

thumb|A pandur (right) of an Habsburg monarchy|Austrian [[freikorps (David Morier, 1748)]]

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thumb|A pandur (right) of an Habsburg monarchy|Austrian [[freikorps (David Morier, 1748)]]

Pandurs were a type of light infantry unit raised in Central Europe. The first was Trenck's Pandurs, used by the Kingdom of Hungary from 1741, fighting in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Silesian Wars. Others to follow included Vladimirescu's Pandurs, a militia established by Tudor Vladimirescu in the Wallachian uprising of 1821, Pandurs of the Croatian Military Frontier, a frontier guard infantry unit deployed in the late 18th century, Pandurs of the Kingdom of Dalmatia, a frontier guard infantry unit deployed in the 19th century. In the second half of the 18th century the Republic of Venice used pandurs as a local militia to fight bandits in the Dalmatia area.

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