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Hungary excluding Sub-Carpathia had three levels of administrative sub-division. Level One were: County (Vármegye, vm) and City with Municipal Status (Törvényhatósági Jogú Város, tjv). Counties were divided into Districts (Járás, j) and Urban Districts Megyei Város, mv) which constituted the second level. A third level were Sub ...
During World War II, the Kingdom of Hungary was a member of the Axis powers. [1] In the 1930s, the Kingdom of Hungary relied on increased trade with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany to pull itself out of the Great Depression. Hungarian politics and foreign policy had become more stridently nationalistic by 1938, and Hungary adopted an irredentist ...
Map of captaincies of Royal Hungary in 1572. In 1547, Royal Hungary was divided for military and partly also administrative purposes in two captaincies-general (Hungarian: főkapitányságok, Slovak: hlavné kapitanáty): Cisdanubia (largely present-day Slovakia) Transdanubia (the remaining Royal Hungary). Later on, these captaincies were ...
The counties are subdivided into 174 districts (járások, singular: járás). these replaced the 175 subregions of Hungary in 2013. [4] Former administrative divisions of Hungary include: Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary; Counties of Hungary (1000–1920) Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary (1941–44)
Regions of Hungary; Districts of Hungary (from 2013) – Subregions of Hungary (until 2013) Ranked list of Hungarian counties; List of cities and towns of Hungary; NUTS:HU; Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary (until 1918) Counties of the Kingdom of Hungary; Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary (1941–44)
The Kingdom of Hungary was an Axis Power during World War II, intent on regaining Hungarian-majority territory that had been lost in the Treaty of Trianon, which it mostly did in early 1941 after the First and Second Vienna Awards and after joining the German invasion of Yugoslavia. By 1944, following heavy setbacks for the Axis, Horthy's ...
During World War II Hungary came under German occupation in 1944, then under Soviet occupation until the end of the war. After World War II, the Second Hungarian Republic was established within Hungary's current-day borders as a socialist People's Republic, lasting from 1949 to the end of communism in Hungary in 1989.
The Hungarian Second Army (Második Magyar Hadsereg) was one of three field armies raised by the Kingdom of Hungary which saw action during World War II. All three armies were formed on March 1, 1940. The Second Army was the best-equipped Hungarian formation at the beginning of the war, but was virtually eliminated as an effective fighting unit ...