Break-up of Kingdom of Hungary within Habsburg Empire

Is it possible that the Kingdom of Hungary could have been broken up into various smaller realms at some point during the 19th Century? Hungary seemed to be by the dominant single realm within the Habsburg Lands, and I was wondering if it could be cut down to size?
 
Austria was the dominant single realm within the Austrian and later Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hungary was the second most important. They were storng enough to force concessions out of the Emperor, but not strong enough to revolt completely.

By 1913 or so, Franz Ferdinand had abandoned his idea of a triple or quadruple monarchy and instead wanted a single centralised state with some local autonomy for the regions - this included dissolving the Hungarian parliament and breaking Hungarian influence.

It is possible that he'd break up Hungary into Slovakia, Siebenbürgen, Banat, Croatia and Hungary.
 
Actually at least for some time there were several separate identities where later the Hungarian Kingdom was

Siebenbürgen was a "kronland" , Temeswarer Banat, ... Sloawonia, Croatia (later merged)
 
This could happen. For example, if Hungary after the Ausgleich wanted to end the agreement as A-H went into a state of Civil War, an Austria victorious consequence would be the depowerment of the Hungarians which could be done by breaking up the Kingdom of Hungary into Crownlands with the same status as Austrian provinces.

I could imagine a Slovak centred one in the North (some kind of reward for supporting the Hapsburgs during the war), a German one including the cities of Ödenburg and Pressburg, Banet, Transylvania and some kind of Upper and Lower Hungary based on a similar idea of Upper and Lower Austria.

The exact size and shape of the Provinces can of course change but it is certainly possible in principle. If the German Empire were to intervene say on the side of Austria during the Civil War and for some reason the other world powers were not able to influence things I say it would become quite likely.
 
Actually that's not to difficult. After the 1848-1849 independence war, Hungary was divided up into 6 districts, each under military control. This continued until 1860, when the pre-1848 divisions were restored. This could be the basis of a Hungarian division. Or perhaps have say Slovakia, Transylvania and Croatia broke off into their own crown land provinces, answering to Vienna instead of Budapest. But either way the 1850s would be the best time to break Hungary apart: the country has been defeated and placed under military rule. No chance of resisting such a division.
 
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