Southern Slovakia → Hungary

When

2 Nov 1938

Kind

Territorial change

Coordinates

48.23° N, 19.71° E

Government

Hungary

Former government

Czechoslovakia

History

After Hungary and Slovakia disputed southern Slovakia, Germany agreed to mediate. Germany ruled in favor of Hungary, transfering southern Slovakia and over a million people (majority Magyar) to Hungary, an event known as the first Vienna Award. Southern

Source map

Mutilated Hungary · 4/4/1939

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1938 treaty on Hungary's boundaries

The First Vienna Award was a treaty signed on 2 November 1938 pursuant to the Vienna Arbitration, which took place at Vienna's Belvedere Palace. The arbitration and award were direct consequences of the previous month's Munich Agreement, which resulted in the partitioning of Czechoslovakia.

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