In the titles of earlier maps of Hungary legal or constitutional terms such as “the countries of the Holy Crown of Hungary” did not occur. Strictly speaking, in constitutional terms the Holy Crown was itself the constitutional power, and in this sense the country was “the lands of the Crown of St. Stephen” and all royal assets and public revenues were called the property of the Holy Crown. The appearance of this expression in the title of the maps of Hungary can thus be seen as reflecting the thaw in relations with the Habsburgs which set in after a period of harrowing repression under the Bach regime, installed following the crushing of the War of Independence.