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The case studies of the article are derived from the architecture of the Roman era (1 st–5 th centuries CE), the Ottoman era (16 th–17 th centuries CE) and the historical industrial architecture of the era of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (19 th–20 th centuries CE), since the Carpathian Basin, the interference territory of Western and Eastern Europe, Northern Europe and the Balkans, was under the influence of states with centres in a different area. ![]() This paper examines the principle of the architectural-historical process in the territory of the Carpathian Basin in three periods. Rather, this phenomenon is to be understood as an external impulse that influences regional architectural development. 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