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As a result, by a treaty signed on 4 April in Budapest, Slovakia was forced to cede to Hungary a strip of eastern Slovak territory (1,697 km 2, 69,930 inhabitants, 78 municipalities), corresponding today to the area around the towns of Stakčín and Sobrance. The war killed 36 Slovak citizens. The two sides' claims were contradictory.
Hungary recognized the Slovak Republic led by Tiso. In 1939, from March 23 to March 31, a border war was fought between Slovakia and Hungary. [2] Although Slovakia had signed a "Protection Treaty" with Nazi Germany, Germany refused to help Slovakia, in direct violation of that treaty.
These territories were returned to Czechoslovakia when Hungary was defeated at the conclusion of World War II by the Treaty of Paris (with the exception of Carpathian Ruthenia, which was annexed by the Soviet Union). On March 14, 1939, Slovakia declared independence and Hungary was the first country to recognize it de facto and de jure. At the ...
On 23 March 1939, Hungary, having already occupied Carpatho-Ukraine, attacked from there, and the newly established Slovak Republic was forced to cede 1,697 square kilometres (655 sq mi) of territory with about 70,000 people to Hungary before the onset of World War II.
The Decline and Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan: A Pictorial History of the Final Days of World War II (1967) Eby, Cecil D. Hungary at war: civilians and soldiers in World War II (Penn State Press, 1998). Don, Yehuda. "The Economic Effect of Antisemitic Discrimination: Hungarian Anti-Jewish Legislation, 1938-1944."
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The centre of Bardejov – a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Slovakia's position in Europe and the country's past (part of the Kingdom of Hungary, the Habsburg monarchy and Czechoslovakia) made many cities and towns similar to the cities in the Czech Republic (such as Prague), Austria (such as Salzburg) or Hungary (such as Budapest). A historical ...
The border between the Hungary and Slovakia (Hungarian: magyar–szlovák államhatár; Slovak: Maďarská-slovensko štátne hranice) is the international border between the Hungary and Slovakia. It forms a 679 kilometres (422 mi) [ 1 ] arc extending from the tripoint with Austria at the west to the tripoint with Ukraine at the east.