Hungary–Yugoslavia relations
![]() Hungary |
![]() Yugoslavia |
---|
![]() Hungary |
![]() Yugoslavia |
---|
![]() Hungary |
![]() Yugoslavia |
---|
![]() | |
![]() Hungary |
![]() Yugoslavia |
---|
Hungary–Yugoslavia relations were historical foreign relations between neighboring Hungary (historically Kingdom of Hungary 1920-1946 and the Hungarian People's Republic 1949–1989) and now broken up Yugoslavia (Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1918-1941 and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1945–1992).
History
Interwar period
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Yugoslav_Hungary_Eternal_Friendship_1941.png/220px-Yugoslav_Hungary_Eternal_Friendship_1941.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Teleki_resignation_letter.jpg/220px-Teleki_resignation_letter.jpg)
At the time of
On 14 March 1941 in Budapest Foreign Ministers Aleksandar Cincar-Marković and László Bárdossy signed the Treaty of Eternal Friendship between Yugoslavia and Hungary. Following the short-lasting Yugoslav accession to the Tripartite Pact on 25 March 1941 the Yugoslav coup d'état took place on 27 March 1941 when the regency led by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia was overthrown and King Peter II fully assumed power. The coup led directly to the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in which Pál Teleki government of Hungary was pressured to join the attack. When Teleki received a call that is thought to have informed him that the German army had just started its march into Hungary.[1] Teleki committed suicide with a pistol during the night of 3 April 1941 and was found the next morning. His suicide note said in part:
We broke our word, – out of cowardice [...] The nation feels it, and we have thrown away its honor. We have allied ourselves to scoundrels [...] We will become body-snatchers! A nation of trash. I did not hold you back. I am guilty"[2][3]
World War II
During the
Cold War
After the end of the World War II relations between the two states rapidly improved but this development was abruptly interrupted by the escalation of the Soviet–Yugoslav conflict following the 1948
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
During 1956, Tito and Khrushchev met four times. While Yugoslav media and authorities verbally supported the
Hungarian community in Yugoslavia (particularly
“Quadrangolare”, the regional cooperation of Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia and Hungary was launched in 1988 as an effort to overcome the constraints presented by Cold War blocs.[9]
Breakup of Yugoslavia
Hungarian authorities sympathized with decentralization initiatives in Yugoslavia but were concerned over the prospect for Hungarians in Serbia in an independent Socialist Republic of Serbia under communist-nationalist leadership.[9]
See also
- Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia
- Croatia–Hungary relations
- Hungarians of Croatia
- Croats of Hungary
- Hungary–Kosovo relations
- Hungary–Serbia relations
- Group of Nine
References
- ISBN 1-931313-57-1.
- ^ Horthy, Miklós; Andrew L. Simon (1957). "The Annotated Memoirs of Admiral Milklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary". Ilona Bowden. Archived from the original on 4 January 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ISBN 978-86-86391-26-1.
- ISBN 978-0-395-41685-3.
- ^ Sonya Yee (27 March 2004). "In Hungary, a Belated Holocaust Memorial". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- ^ a b Vukman, Péter (2020). "Living in the Vicinity of the Yugoslav–Hungarian Border (1945–1960): Breaks and Continuities. A Case Study of Hercegszántó (Santovo)". History in Flux: Journal of the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. 2 (2): 9–27. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ a b c d Granville, Johanna (1998). "Hungary, 1956: The Yugoslav Connection". Europe-Asia Studies. 50 (3): 493–517. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ Tvrtko Jakovina. "Yugoslavia on the International Scene: The Active Coexistence of Non-Aligned Yugoslavia". YU historija. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ a b Jeszenszky, Géza. "Hungary and the Break-up of Yugoslavia - a Documentary History - Part I". Magyar Szemle. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
Further reading
- Hornyák, Árpád, and Thomas J. DeKornfeld. Hungarian-Yugoslav Diplomatic Relations 1918-1927 (Social Science Monographs, 2013), ISBN 9780880337014
.