Hungarian Republic (1919–1920)
Hungarian Republic Magyar Köztársaság (Hungarian) | |||||||||
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| 1919–1920 | |||||||||
| Anthem: Eastern Catholicism · Unitarianism · Judaism | |||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Hungarian | ||||||||
| Government | Republic | ||||||||
| Regent | |||||||||
• Aug. 1919 | AD. Joseph August | ||||||||
| President | |||||||||
• Aug. 1919 – Nov. 1919 | István Friedricha | ||||||||
• Nov. 1919 – Mar. 1920 | Károly Huszára | ||||||||
Prime Minister | |||||||||
• Aug. 1919 – Nov. 1919 | István Friedrich | ||||||||
• Nov. 1919 – Mar. 1920 | Károly Huszár | ||||||||
| Legislature | Parliamentary elections | 25 January 1920 | |||||||
| 29 February 1920[2] | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| 1920[3] | 92,833 km2 (35,843 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1920[3] | 7,980,143 | ||||||||
| Currency | Hungarian korona | ||||||||
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The Hungarian Republic[4][5] (Hungarian: Magyar Köztársaság) was a short-lived republic that existed between August 1919 and February 1920 in the central and western portions of the former First Hungarian Republic (controlling most of today's Hungary and parts of present-day Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia). The state was established in the aftermath of the Hungarian–Romanian War by counter-revolutionary forces who sought to return to the status quo prior to 31 October 1918.[6][7][8]
Following this period, the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, the Austrian Republic, and the Czechoslovak Republic. Subsequently, the Republic was transformed back into the Kingdom of Hungary, which signed the Treaty of Trianon
under protest.
History
On 6 August 1919
monarchy
a few months later.
A militantly
Károlyi and Kun regimes, and others who threatened the traditional Hungarian political order that the officers sought to re-establish.[13] Estimates placed the number of executions at approximately 5,000.[13] In addition, about 75,000 people were jailed.[13][9] In particular, the Hungarian right-wing and the Romanian forces targeted Jews for retribution.[13] Ultimately, the White Terror forced nearly 100,000 people to leave the country, most of them socialists, intellectuals, and middle-class Jews.[13]
In 1920 and 1921, internal chaos racked Hungary. a position he would hold until 1944.
See also
Notes
- ISBN 963-389-590-1.
- ^ a b Dr. Térfy, Gyula, ed. (1921). "1920. évi I. törvénycikk az alkotmányosság helyreállításáról és az állami főhatalom gyakorlásának ideiglenes rendezéséről.". Magyar törvénytár (Corpus Juris Hungarici): 1920. évi törvénycikkek (in Hungarian). Budapest: Révai Testvérek Irodalmi Intézet Részvénytársaság. p. 3.
- ISBN 963-8318-70-8.
- ^ "Minisztertanácsi jegyzőkönyvek: 1919. augusztus 8" (in Hungarian). DigitArchiv. p. 10. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ^ "Minisztertanácsi jegyzőkönyvek: 1919. augusztus 16" (in Hungarian). DigitArchiv. p. 12. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ISBN 963-389-590-1.
- ^ S. Balogh, Eva (Spring 1977). "Power Struggle in Hungary: Analysis in Post-war Domestic Politics August-November 1919" (PDF). Canadian-American Review of Hungarian Studies. 4 (1): 7.
- ISBN 963-9015-08-3.
- ^ a b "Hungary Between The Wars". A History of Modern Hungary: 1867-1994.
- ISBN 963-8153-55-5.
- ^ S. Balogh, Eva (Spring 1977). "Power Struggle in Hungary: Analysis in Post-war Domestic Politics August-November 1919" (PDF). Canadian-American Review of Hungarian Studies. 4 (1): 6.
- ^ "Die amtliche Meldung über den Rücktritt" (in German). Neue Freie Presse, Morgenblatt. 1919-08-24. p. 2.
- ^ OCLC 311424250.)
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