Talk:Austrian knot

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Perhaps someone could add this image - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MessDressF.jpg - to the page?

Vitéz Kötés

Dear lafies and gentlemen,

please excuse my bad english. I am from Austria so it's not my native language. The title of the article is wrong because this knot is called Vitez Kötes (hungarian for hero's lash) and was introduced in the Austrian Army during the War of Austrian Sucession to attract more hungarian volunteers. And most important, it was never worn by Regiments recruited not in Hungary.

--78.104.125.31 (talk) 16:53, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Hungarian knot" would be more accurate as explained above but, for uncertain reasons, the nineteenth century British and US armies adopted the name "Austrian" for the distinctive rank braiding worn on the sleeves of their officers' uniforms and so it remains in English. Most probably the historic error reflects a tendency to lump all things Hungarian under the heading "Austrian", at least until the creation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867. The French Army more correctly called the braiding noeuds hongrois .Buistr (talk) 21:22, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]