What the records say
- When
- 4 Apr 1939
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Coordinates
- 48.46° N, 23.28° E
- Government
- Hungary
- Former government
- Slovakia
- History
- The Hungarian army invaded Carpatho-Ukraine shortly after it declared independence. Within days, Hungary annexed the territory, which had belonged to Austria-Hungary before WWI.
- Source map
- Mutilated Hungary · 4/4/1939
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine
1939 military conflict
The Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine was a 1939 military conflict between the Kingdom of Hungary and Carpatho-Ukraine. During the invasion a series of clashes took place between the Hungarian and Polish troops against the paramilitary formations of the Carpathian Sich of Carpathian Ukraine and some Czech troops who remained in the region after the Czechoslovak army was disbanded.
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2 sources record it
- European Borders, World War II (1938–1945)Stanford Spatial History Lab (M. De Groot)Stanford Spatial History Lab: scholarly reuse, no commercial use
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War Project · names it “Czechoslovakia → Hungary (conquest)”Correlates of War: free use with citation
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