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The Treaty of Trianon is the peace treaty concluded at the end of World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 by the Allies of World War I
Allies of World War I

File:Map Europe alliances 1914-en.svgThe Entente Powers were the countries at war with the Central Powers during World War I. The main allies were the Russian Empire, French Third Republic, the British Empire, Kingdom of Italy , the Empire of Japan, and the United States....
, on one side, and Hungary
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
, seen as a successor of Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, also known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Kaiserlich und k?niglich Monarchy was a state in Central Europe ruled by the House of Habsburg, constitutionally a personal union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary....
, on the other. It established the borders of Hungary and regulated its international situation. Hungary was shorn of over 72% of its territory, 64% of its inhabitants and 3.3 out of 10.7 million ethnic Hungarians
Hungarian people

Hungarians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Magyars in Hungary . Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium....
 under the treaty. Her territory sank from 325,111 km2 to 93,000 km2 and her population from 20,9 million to 7,6 million.






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The Treaty of Trianon is the peace treaty concluded at the end of World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 by the Allies of World War I
Allies of World War I

File:Map Europe alliances 1914-en.svgThe Entente Powers were the countries at war with the Central Powers during World War I. The main allies were the Russian Empire, French Third Republic, the British Empire, Kingdom of Italy , the Empire of Japan, and the United States....
, on one side, and Hungary
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
, seen as a successor of Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, also known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Kaiserlich und k?niglich Monarchy was a state in Central Europe ruled by the House of Habsburg, constitutionally a personal union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary....
, on the other. It established the borders of Hungary and regulated its international situation. Hungary was shorn of over 72% of its territory, 64% of its inhabitants and 3.3 out of 10.7 million ethnic Hungarians
Hungarian people

Hungarians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Magyars in Hungary . Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium....
 under the treaty. Her territory sank from 325,111 km2 to 93,000 km2 and her population from 20,9 million to 7,6 million. The principal beneficiaries of territorial adjustment were Romania
Kingdom of Romania

The Kingdom of Roumania was the old Romanian state based on a form of parliamentary monarchy between March 13, 1881 and December 30, 1947, specified by the First , and respectively, the Second Constitution of Roumania....
, Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938)

The Czechoslovak Republic , refers to the first Czechoslovak state that existed from 1918 to 1939. The state was commonly called Czechoslovakia ....
, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Hungarian delegation signed the treaty under protest on 4 June 1920 at the Grand Trianon Palace
Grand Trianon

The Grand Trianon was built in the northwestern part of the Ch?teau de Versailles at the request of Louis XIV, as a retreat for the King and his ma?tresse en titre of the time, the Fran?oise-Ath?na?s, marquise de Montespan, and as a place where the King and invited guests could take light meals away from the strict etiquette of the Cou...
 in Versailles
Versailles

Versailles , formerly de facto capital of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important administrative and judicial centre....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. Hungary recovered part of its lost territories in 1939–40, but was later reduced to boundaries approximating those of 1920 by the peace treaties signed after the 2nd World War at Paris, 1947
Paris Peace Treaties, 1947

The Paris Peace Conference resulted in the Paris Peace Treaties signed on February 10, 1947. The victorious wartime Allied powers negotiated the details of treaties with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland....
.

New borders of Hungary

The Hungarian government terminated the personal union with Austria on 31 October 1918, officially dissolving the Austro-Hungarian state. The de facto temporary borders of independent Hungary were defined by the ceasefire lines in November-December 1918. Compared with the former Kingdom of Hungary, these temporary borders did not include:
  • On 29 October 1918, the Parliament of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia terminated the union with Hungary. After that it first formed a State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
    State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs

    File:Austria Hungary ethnic.svgThe State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs was a short-lived state formed from the southernmost parts of the Austria-Hungary after its dissolution at the end of the World War I by the resident population of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs....
     with other South Slavic formerly Austro-Hungarian territories on 1 October 1918, then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by joining with the Kingdom of Serbia on 1 December 1918.
  • Part of Transylvania
    Transylvania

    Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountains, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term frequently encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical regions of Crisana, Maramures, and Banat....
     south of the Mures
    Mures River

    The Mures is an approximately 725 km long river in Eastern Europe. It originates in the Giurgeu Range in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, Romania, and joins the Tisza river at Szeged in southeastern Hungary....
     river and east of the Somes
    Somes River

    The river Somes in Romanian language or Szamos in Hungarian language, flows through Romania and Hungary.There are two headstream, the Somesul Mare River, rising from the Rodna Mountains in Bistrita-Nasaud County and the Somesul Mic River rising from the Apuseni Mountains in Cluj County, which is in turn formed by the confluenc...
     river, which came under the control of Romania
    Romania

    Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
     (cease-fire agreement of Belgrade
    Belgrade

    Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies on international waterway, at the confluence of the Sava River and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkan Peninsula....
     signed on 13 November 1918). On 1 December 1918, the National Assembly of Romanians in Transylvania declared union with the Kingdom of Romania
    Kingdom of Romania

    The Kingdom of Roumania was the old Romanian state based on a form of parliamentary monarchy between March 13, 1881 and December 30, 1947, specified by the First , and respectively, the Second Constitution of Roumania....
    .
  • Most of the Baranya
    Baranya (former county)

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = Baranya County|common_name = Baranya|subdivision = Comitatus |nation = the Kingdom of Hungary...
    , Bács-Bodrog
    Bács-Bodrog

    B?cs-Bodrog is the name of administrative county of the historic Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is currently in southern Hungary and northern Serbia ....
    , Torontál
    Torontál

    Toront?l is the name of administrative county of the historic Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in northern Serbia , western Romania and southern Hungary....
    , Temes
    Temes

    Temes is the name of an administrative county of the historic Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is currently in south-western Romania and northern Serbia ....
     and Krassó-Szörény
    Krassó-Szörény

    Krass?-Sz?r?ny is the name of administrative county of the historic Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently mostly located in south-western Romania, with one small part which is located in Serbia....
     counties according to the ceasefire agreement of Belgrade
    Belgrade

    Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies on international waterway, at the confluence of the Sava River and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkan Peninsula....
     signed on 13 November 1918. The Great People's Assembly of Serbs, Croats, Bunyevs, Slovaks, Rusyns and other peoples from Banat, Backa and Baranja declared union with the Kingdom of Serbia
    Kingdom of Serbia

    The Kingdom of Serbia was created when Prince Milan Obrenovic, ruler of the Principality of Serbia, was crowned King in 1882. The Principality of Serbia was ruled by the Karadjordjevic dynasty from 1817 onwards ....
     on 25 November 1918. The ceasefire line had a character of temporary international border until the treaty. On 1 December 1918, the National Assembly of Romanians in Banat voted union with the Kingdom of Romania
    Kingdom of Romania

    The Kingdom of Roumania was the old Romanian state based on a form of parliamentary monarchy between March 13, 1881 and December 30, 1947, specified by the First , and respectively, the Second Constitution of Roumania....
  • Upper Hungary
    Upper Hungary

    Upper Hungary is the usual English translation of two terms:1. The older Hungarian language term Felso-Magyarorsz?g formally referred to what is today approximately Regions of Slovakia in the 16th-18th centuries and informally to all the northern parts of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 19th century....
    , which became part of Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia

    Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
     as Slovakia
    Slovakia

    Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
     (status quo set by the Czechoslovak legions
    Czechoslovak Legions

    The Czechoslovak Legions were Czechs and Slovaks volunteer armed forces fighting together with the Allies of World War I during World War I....
     and accepted by the Entente on 25 November 1918). Afterwards Milan Hodža
    Milan Hodža

    Milan Hod?a was a prominent Slovaks politician and journalist, serving from 1935 to 1938 as the Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia and in December 1935 as the acting President of Czechoslovakia....
     Slovak politician discussed with Hungarian Minister of Defence, Albert Bartha about a temporary demarcation line which followed to the Slovak-Hungarian linguistic border much or little . That was signed on 6 December, in 1918.
  • The city of Fiume
    Rijeka

    Rijeka is the principal seaport of Croatia, located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea. It has 144,043 inhabitants and is Croatia's third largest city....
     (Rijeka), which joined the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
    State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs

    File:Austria Hungary ethnic.svgThe State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs was a short-lived state formed from the southernmost parts of the Austria-Hungary after its dissolution at the end of the World War I by the resident population of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs....
    , but was subsequently occupied by the Italian Army and became a matter of international dispute between the Kingdom of Italy
    Kingdom of Italy

    There have been several distinct entities known as the Kingdom of Italy. Italy under the rule of Odoacer from 476 to 493 is often called the kingdom of Italy, since it encompassed the Italia and Odoacer is periodically styled rex ....
     and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
  • After the military victory of Croatian forces led by Slavko Kvaternik
    Slavko Kvaternik

    Slavko Kvaternik was the deputy leader and founding member of the Croatian Usta?e movement in the 1930s and later one of the leaders of the Independent State of Croatia....
     in Medimurje against Hungarian forces this region voted in the Great Assembly of 9 January 1919 for separation from Hungary and entry into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.


After the Romanian Army
Romanian Army

The Romanian Land Forces, Romanian Air Force and Romanian Naval Forces are collectively known as the Romanian Armed Forces . The current Commander-in-chief is Admiral Gheorghe Marin, being managed by the Ministry of Defense , while the President of Romania is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces during wartime....
 advanced beyond this cease-fire line, the Entente powers asked Hungary (Vix note) to acknowledge the new Romanian territory gains by a new line set along the Tisza
Tisza

The Tisza is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It originates in Ukraine, with the White Tisza in the Chornohora and Black Tisza in the Gorgany range, flows partially along the Romanian border, enters Hungary at Tiszabecs, marks Slovakia-Hungarian border, passes through Hungary, and falls into the Danube in central Vojvodina in Serbia...
 river. Unable to reject these terms and unwilling to accept them, the leaders of the Hungarian Democratic Republic
Hungarian Democratic Republic

Hungarian Democratic Republic was an independent republic proclaimed after the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918....
 resigned and the communists seized power. In spite of the country being under Allied blockade, the Hungarian Soviet Republic
Hungarian Soviet Republic

The Hungarian Soviet Republic or Soviet Republic of Hungary was a Communism regime established in Hungary from March 21 until August 6, 1919, under the leadership of B?la Kun....
 was formed and the Hungarian Red Army was rapidly set up. This army was initially successful against the Czechoslovak Legions
Czechoslovak Legions

The Czechoslovak Legions were Czechs and Slovaks volunteer armed forces fighting together with the Allies of World War I during World War I....
 (see Slovak Soviet Republic
Slovak Soviet Republic

The Slovak Soviet Republic comprised a very short-lived communism state in south and eastern Slovakia from 16 June to 7 July 1919, with its capital in Ko?ice, and headed by the Czechs journalist Anton?n Janou?ek....
) due to having been implicitly aided with food and weapons by Italy; which made it possible for Hungary to reach nearly the former Galitian
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria official ) was a kingdom dependent to the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire and Austria?Hungary from 1772 to 1917; independent from July 26, 1917 to November 14, 1918....
 (Polish) border, thus separating the Czechoslovak and Romanian troops from each other. After a Hungarian-Czechoslovak cease-fire signed on 1 July 1919, the Hungarian Red Army left Upper Hungary
Upper Hungary

Upper Hungary is the usual English translation of two terms:1. The older Hungarian language term Felso-Magyarorsz?g formally referred to what is today approximately Regions of Slovakia in the 16th-18th centuries and informally to all the northern parts of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 19th century....
 by 4 July, as the Entente powers promised Hungary to invite a Hungarian delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference. In the end, this invitation was not issued. Kun then turned the Hungarian Red Army on the Romanian Army and attacked at the Tisza river
Hungarian-Romanian War of 1919

The seeds of the Hungarian-Romanian war of 1919 were planted when the territory of Transylvania proclaimed Union of Transylvania with Romania on December 1, 1918....
 on 20 July 1919. After intense fighting that lasted some five days, the Hungarian Red Army collapsed. The Royal Romanian Army marched into Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
 on 4 August 1919.

The Hungarian state was restored by the Entente powers, helping Admiral Horthy
Miklós Horthy

Mikl?s Horthy de Baia Mare was the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the Hungary between the two world wars and throughout most of World War II, serving from March 1, 1920, to October 15, 1944....
 into power in November 1919. On 1 December 1919 the Hungarian delegation was officially invited to the Versailles Peace Conference, however the new borders of Hungary were nearly finalized without the presence of the Hungarians. During prior negotiations, the Hungarian party, along with the Austrian, advocated the American principal of self-determination and that the disputed territories should themselves decide by free plebiscite to which country they wished to belong. However, this view did not prevail long, the reason being that it was primarily overlooked by the decisive French and British delegates. The outline of the new frontiers were drafted by the Allies with little or no regard to the historical, cultural, ethnic, geographic, economic and strategic aspects of the region. Altough the countries who were the main beneficiaries of the treaty just partially noted the issues, the Hungarian delegates tried to draw attention to them, but were left unnoticed by the Allied representatives. As a result, these problems also contributed to destabilization and the outbreak of World War II.

The 3.3 million Hungarians who ended up in foreign countries as a result of the treaty were subject to discrimination and assimilation. Most Hungarian settlements, consisting of more than 2 million Magyars, were situated in a typically 20-50 km wide strip along the new borders in foreign territory. More concentrated groups could be found in Czechoslovakia (Felvidék
Upper Hungary

Upper Hungary is the usual English translation of two terms:1. The older Hungarian language term Felso-Magyarorsz?g formally referred to what is today approximately Regions of Slovakia in the 16th-18th centuries and informally to all the northern parts of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 19th century....
), Serbia (Vojvodina
Vojvodina

The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an Subdivisions of Serbia in Serbia, containing about 27% of its total population according to the 2002 Census....
 or Vajdaság
Vojvodina

The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an Subdivisions of Serbia in Serbia, containing about 27% of its total population according to the 2002 Census....
), and Romania (Transylvania
Transylvania

Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountains, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term frequently encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical regions of Crisana, Maramures, and Banat....
). See more here
Treaty of Trianon

The Treaty of Trianon is the peace treaty concluded at the end of World War I by the Allies of World War I, on one side, and Hungary, seen as a successor of Austria-Hungary, on the other....
.

The final borders of Hungary were defined by the Treaty of Trianon signed on 4 June 1920. Beside the previously mentioned territories, they did not include:
  • the rest of Transylvania
    Transylvania

    Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountains, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term frequently encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical regions of Crisana, Maramures, and Banat....
     together with former Eastern Hungary, which became part of Romania
    Romania

    Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
    ;
  • Carpathian Ruthenia
    Carpathian Ruthenia

    Carpathian Ruthenia, List of acronyms and initialisms: A#AK Transcarpathian Ruthenia, Rusinko, Subcarpathian Rus, Subcarpathia is a small region in Central Europe, now mostly in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast , easternmost Slovakia , Poland's Lemkivshchyna and Romanian Maramures....
    , which became part of Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia

    Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
    , pursuant to the Treaty of Saint-Germain
    Treaty of Saint-Germain

    File:AustriaHungaryWWI.gifFile:Austria-Hungary post-division, William Shepherd 1926 atlas.jpgThe Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, was signed on 10 September 1919 by the victorious Allies of World War I on the one hand and by the new First Austrian Republic on the other....
     in 1919;
  • most of Burgenland
    Burgenland

    Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous Bundesland or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstadt and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities....
    , which became part of Austria
    Austria

    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
    , also pursuant to the Treaty of Saint-Germain; the district of Sopron
    Sopron

    Sopron ; , , Latin language: Scarbantia) is a city in Hungary near the Austrian border.HistoryAncient times-13th century...
     opted to remain with Hungary after a plebiscite held in December 1921 (it was the only place where a plebiscite was permitted in the decision);
  • Medimurje and Prekmurje
    Prekmurje

    Prekmurje is the easternmost region of Slovenia. It borders Hungary to the north-east, Austria to the north-west, Croatia to the south and the Slovenian region of Lower Styria to the south-west....
    , which became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.


By the Treaty of Trianon, the cities of Pécs, Mohács, Baja and Szigetvár, which were under Yugoslav administration after November 1918, were assigned to Hungary.

An arbitration committee in 1920 assigned small northern parts of the former Árva
Arva

* Arva, a village in Co Cavan, Ireland* Arva, Ontario, a community located in Middlesex Centre, Ontario, Ontario, CanadaArva may refer to several villages in Romania:...
 and Szepes counties of the Kingdom of Hungary with Polish
Poles

The Polish people, or Poles , are a West Slavs ethnic group of Central Europe, living predominantly in Poland. Poles are sometimes defined as people who share a common Polish culture and are of Polish descent....
 majority population to Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
.

After 1918, Hungary did not have access to the sea
SEA

See also: Sea and seasThe three-letter acronym SEA may refer to:People/organizations/businesses*Scientists and Engineers for America, a pro-science political advocacy group....
, which it had had directly through the Rijeka
Rijeka

Rijeka is the principal seaport of Croatia, located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea. It has 144,043 inhabitants and is Croatia's third largest city....
 coastline and indirectly through the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

With the help of Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
 and Fascist Italy
Fascist Italy

Fascist Italy may refer to two different states:*Kingdom of Italy *Italian Social Republic It may also refer to* Italian fascism, the political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943, or...
, Hungary expanded its borders towards neighbouring countries at the outset of World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, under the Munich Agreement
Munich Agreement

The Munich Agreement was an agreement regarding the Sudetenland, which were areas along borders of Czechoslovakia, mainly inhabited by Czech Germans....
 (1938), the two Vienna Awards
Vienna Awards

The Vienna Awards are two arbitral awards by which arbiters of Germany and Italy sought to enforce peacefully the claims of Hungary on territory it had lost in 1920 when it signed the Treaty of Trianon....
 (1938 and 1940), following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia (occupation of northern Carpathian Ruthenia and eastern Slovakia) and following German aggression against Yugoslavia. This territorial expansion was short-lived, since the post-war boundaries agreed on at the Treaty of Paris
Paris Peace Treaties, 1947

The Paris Peace Conference resulted in the Paris Peace Treaties signed on February 10, 1947. The victorious wartime Allied powers negotiated the details of treaties with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland....
 in 1947 were nearly identical to those of 1920 (with three villages – Jarovce
Jarovce

Jarovce is a small borough of Bratislava, Slovakia....
, Rusovce
Rusovce

Rusovce is a borough in southern Bratislava on the right bank of the Danube river, close to the Hungary border....
, and Cunovo
Cunovo

Cunovo is a small part of Bratislava, Slovakia, in the southern area near the Hungary border. It is located close to the Gabc?kovo - Nagymaros Dams....
 – transferred to Czechoslovakia).

Consequences of the treaty


Demographic consequences


Trianon1
According to the census of 1910, the largest ethnic group in the Kingdom of Hungary were the Hungarians, who were approximately 48% of the entire population (or 54% of the population of the territory referred to as "Hungary proper", i.e., excluding Croatia-Slavonia). The Kingdom of Hungary was not a nation-state
Nation-state

The nation-state is a certain form of state that derives its legitimacy from serving as a Sovereignty entity for a nation as a sovereign territorial unit....
 as were many Western European nations.

Some demographers believe that the 1910 census overstated the percentage of the Hungarian population, pointing to the discrepancy between an improbably high growth of the number of Hungarians and the decrease of other nationalities in the kingdom in the late 19th century. They also argue that there were different results in previous censuses of the Kingdom and subsequent censuses in the new states. Another problem with interpreting the census results is that the 1910 census did not record the respondents' ethnicity, but only language
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 (whether it was "native language" or "most frequently spoken language") and the religion, thus the presented census numbers of ethnic groups in the Kingdom of Hungary are actually the numbers of speakers of various languages, which may not correspond exactly to the ethnic composition.

Although the territories of the former Kingdom of Hungary that were assigned by the treaty to neighbouring states had a majority of non-Hungarian population, they also included significant Hungarian minorities, numbering 3,318,000 in total. After the treaty, the percentage and the absolute number of all Hungarian nationalities decreased in the next decades. The main reasons of this process were spontaneous assimilation and Slovakization
Slovakization

Slovakization is a term used to describe a cultural change in which ethnically non-Slovaks people are made to become Slovak. In terms of historical context Slovakization can refer to the government policies in either Slovakia or the former Czechoslovakia in imposing a nation-state....
, Romanianization
Romanianization

Romanianization or Rumanization is the term used to describe a number of ethnic assimilation policies implemented by the Romanian authorities during the 20th century....
, Serbianisation
Serbianisation

Serbianisation or Serbification is a term used to its belief that all South Slavs, comprising Slovenes, Croats, Bosnians, Montenegrins, and, before 1945, Macedonians, should consider themselves, in their essential being, as Serbs....
 policy of the states. After WWII, the Czechoslovak government with the Beneš decrees
Beneš decrees

The Bene? decrees is a current popular term for a series of laws enacted by the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile during World War II in the absence of the Czechoslovak parliament ....
 granted the forcible "population transfer
Population transfer

Population transfer is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state policy or international authority, most frequently on the basis of ethnicity or religion....
" (deportation
Deportation

Deportation generally means the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. The expulsion of natives is also called banishment, exile, or penal transportation....
) in 1945-47 of about 2.6 million former Czechoslovak citizens of German and Hungarian ethnicity to Germany, Austria and Hungary.

Distribution of the Hungarian population in the Kingdom of Hungary
The number of Hungarians in the different areas based on census data of 1910.
  • In Upper Hungary
    Upper Hungary

    Upper Hungary is the usual English translation of two terms:1. The older Hungarian language term Felso-Magyarorsz?g formally referred to what is today approximately Regions of Slovakia in the 16th-18th centuries and informally to all the northern parts of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 19th century....
     (Slovakia
    Slovakia

    Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
    ): 885,000 - 30%
  • In Transylvania
    Transylvania

    Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountains, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term frequently encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical regions of Crisana, Maramures, and Banat....
     (Romania
    Romania

    Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
    ): 1,662,000 - 32%
  • In Vojvodina
    Vojvodina

    The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an Subdivisions of Serbia in Serbia, containing about 27% of its total population according to the 2002 Census....
     (Serbia
    Serbia

    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
    ): 420,000 - 28%
  • In Transcarpathia
    Zakarpattia Oblast

    Zakarpattia Oblast is an administrative administrative divisions of Ukraine located in southwestern Ukraine. Its Capital is the city of Uzhhorod....
     (Ukraine
    Ukraine

    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
    ): 183,000 - 30%
  • In Croatia
    Croatia

    Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
    : 121,000 - 3.5%
  • In Slovenia
    Slovenia

    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....
    : 20,800 - 1.6%
  • In Burgenland
    Burgenland

    Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous Bundesland or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstadt and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities....
     (Austria
    Austria

    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
    ): 26,200 - 9%


Distribution of the non-Hungarian population in the Kingdom of Hungary
Slovaks, Romanians, Ruthenians, Serbo-Croatians and Germans, who represented the majority of the populations of the above-mentioned territories based on 1910 census data:
  • In Upper Hungary
    Upper Hungary

    Upper Hungary is the usual English translation of two terms:1. The older Hungarian language term Felso-Magyarorsz?g formally referred to what is today approximately Regions of Slovakia in the 16th-18th centuries and informally to all the northern parts of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 19th century....
     (Slovakia
    Slovakia

    Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
    , Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia

    Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
    ): 1,687,977 Slovaks and 1,233,454 others (mostly Hungarians - 886,044, Germans, Ruthenians and Roma) [according to the 1921 census, however, there were 1,941,942 Slovaks and 1,058,928 others]
  • In Carpathian Ruthenia
    Carpathian Ruthenia

    Carpathian Ruthenia, List of acronyms and initialisms: A#AK Transcarpathian Ruthenia, Rusinko, Subcarpathian Rus, Subcarpathia is a small region in Central Europe, now mostly in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast , easternmost Slovakia , Poland's Lemkivshchyna and Romanian Maramures....
     (Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia

    Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
    ): 330,010 Ruthenians and 275,932 others (mostly Hungarians, Germans, Romanians, and Slovaks)
  • In Transylvania
    Transylvania

    Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountains, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term frequently encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical regions of Crisana, Maramures, and Banat....
     (Romania
    Romania

    Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
    ): 2,829,454 Romanians (53.8%) and 2,428,013 others (mostly Hungarians and Germans). The 1919 and 1920 Transylvanian censuses indicate a greater percentage of Romanians (57.1%/57.3%) and a smaller Hungarian minority (26.5%/25.5%)
  • In Vojvodina
    Vojvodina

    The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an Subdivisions of Serbia in Serbia, containing about 27% of its total population according to the 2002 Census....
     and Croatia-Slavonia (Yugoslavia
    Yugoslavia

    File:LocationYugoslavia2.pngYugoslavia is a term that describes three political entities that existed successively on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century....
    ): 2,756,000 Serbo-Croatians and 1,366,000 others (mostly Hungarians and Germans)
  • In Burgenland
    Burgenland

    Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous Bundesland or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstadt and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities....
     (Austria
    Austria

    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
    ): 217,072 Germans and 69,858 others (mainly Croatian and Hungarian)


Minorities in post-Trianon Hungary
On the other hand, a considerable number of other nationalities remained within the frontiers of the new Hungary:

According to the 1920 census 10.4 % of the population spoke one of the minority languages as mother language:

  • 551,211 German (6.9%)
  • 141,882 Slovak (1.8%)
  • 23,760 Romanian (0.3%)
  • 36,858 Croatian (0.5%)
  • 23,228 Bunjevac (Croatian) and Šokac (Croatian)(0.3%)
  • 17,131 Serb (0.2%)


The number of bilingual people was much higher, for example 1,398,729 people spoke German (17%), 399,176 people spoke Slovak (5%), 179,928 people spoke Croatian (2,2%) and 88,828 people spoke Romanian (1,1%). Hungarian was spoken by 96% of the total population and was the mother language of 89%.

The percentage and the absolute number of all non-Hungarian nationalities decreased in the next decades, although the total population of the country increased. Bilingualism was also disappearing. The main reasons of this process were spontaneous assimilation and the Magyarization
Magyarization

Magyarization is a designator applied to a number of ethnic Cultural assimilation policies implemented by various Hungary authorities in the 19th century and at the beginning of 20th century....
 policy of the state. Minorities made up 8% of the total population in 1930 and 7% in 1941 (on the post-Trianon territory).

After WWII about 200,000 Germans were deported to Germany according to the decree of the Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference

The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of William, German Crown Prince, in Potsdam, Germany, from July 16 to August 2, 1945....
. Under the forced exchange of population between Czechoslovakia and Hungary, approximately 73,000 Slovaks left Hungary. After these population movements Hungary became an ethnically almost homogeneous country except the rapidly growing number of Roma people
Roma people

The Romani are an ethnic group of Europe tracing their Origins of the Romani people to middle kingdoms of India.The Romani are Romani diaspora with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe, with more recent diaspora populations in the Americas and, to a lesser extent, in other par...
 in the second half of the 20th century.

Political consequences

Grenzstein
The Treaty and its consequences are debated in Central European politics to this day. One of the main controversies about the Treaty of Trianon concerns the borders of Hungary.

Officially for the public, the treaty was intended to be a confirmation of the concept of the right for self-determination
Self-determination

Self-determination is defined as free choice of one?s own acts without external compulsion, and especially as the freedom of the people of a given territory to determine their own political status or independence from their current state....
 of nations and of the concept of nation-state
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The nation-state is a certain form of state that derives its legitimacy from serving as a Sovereignty entity for a nation as a sovereign territorial unit....
s replacing old multinational empires. Although the treaty addressed some nationality issues, it also sparked new ones at the same time. While formal minorities of the Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary , which existed from 1000 to 1918, and then from 1920 to 1946, was a considerable state in Central Europe....
, such as Slovaks, Romanian
Romanian

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s, Serbs, Croats, etc., established or joined to their nation-state; as much as one-third of the Hungarian population lived in the annexed territories beside these nationals, too. As a result, it was now a significant portion of Hungarian people
Hungarian people

Hungarians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Magyars in Hungary . Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium....
, who were forced to go under foreign rule.

From the point of view of most non-Hungarians that lived in the former Kingdom of Hungary, after centuries of foreign rule, the minorities of former Austria-Hungary (often called a 'dungeon of nations' by them) would finally achieve a right for self-determination and independence, and be united with other members of their nation. On the other hand, after the new borders had been established, majority of the 3.3 million Hungarians who lived in now-foreign lands were situated just outside the new border lines and were not given the option of self-determination. In addition, beside scattered Hungarian settlements, various extensive areas were composed of concentrated Hungarians too.

Therefore, while the majority of the areas that had been part of the Kingdom of Hungary but were not part of the independent country after the Treaty were inhabited by non-Hungarian nationalities, there were also many areas inhabited mainly by Hungarians which were not located within the borders of Hungary after the Treaty, and there have periodically been concerns about the treatment of these ethnic Hungarian communities in the neighboring states.. Areas with significant Hungarian populations include the Székely Land
Székely Land

Sz?kely Land refers to the territories inhabited by the Sz?kely, a Hungarians in Romania people living in eastern Transylvania, centre of present-day Romania....
 in Eastern Transylvania and some areas along the new Romanian-Hungarian border (cities of Arad
Arad

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, Temesvar), southern parts of Slovakia (see: Komárno
Komárno

Kom?rno is a town in Slovakia at the Danube and the V?h rivers. Kom?rno is the larger part of the former town of the Kingdom of Hungary situated on both banks of the Danube....
, Csallóköz), southern parts of Carpatho-Ukraine, northern parts of Vojvodina (see: Ethnic groups of Vojvodina
Ethnic groups of Vojvodina

There are many ethnic groups in Vojvodina....
), etc.

The Allies discarded the idea of plebiscites in any of the disputed areas with the exception of the city of Sopron
Sopron

Sopron ; , , Latin language: Scarbantia) is a city in Hungary near the Austrian border.HistoryAncient times-13th century...
, which voted to remain in Hungary (the Allies were indifferent as to the exact line of the new border between Austria and Hungary). Furthermore, ethnically diverse Transylvania, with an overal Romanian majority (53.8%), was treated as a single entity at the peace negotiations and was assigned in entirety to Romania. The option of partition along ethnic lines as an alternative was rejected.

Hence, the principle of self-determination was applied with double standards to different people by the Allies.

Another reason why the victorious Allies decided to dissolve the Central-European superpower, Austria-Hungary, a strong German supporter and fast developing region, was to prevent Germany from acquiring substantial influence in the future. The Western powers' main priority was to prevent a resurgence of the German Reich and they therefore decided that her allies in the region, Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
 and Hungary
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
, should be "contained" by a ring of states friendly to the Allies, each of which would be bigger than either Austria or Hungary. Compared with the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary, post-Trianon Hungary had 60% less population and its political and economical footprint in the region were significantly reduced: Hungary lost strategic military and economic infrastructure due to the concentric layout of the railway and road network which the borders bisected. In addition, the structure of its economy collapsed, because it used to rely on other parts of the Kingdom.(See Economic consequences) Also, the country lost access to the Mediterranean Sea, fallen short of the important sea port of Rijeka(Fiume), and became landlocked, which had a negative effect on sea trading and strategic naval operations. Besides, many trading routes from various parts of the kingdom had been abandoned that went through the new borders.

With regard to the ethnic issues, the Western powers were aware of the problem posed by the presence of so many Hungarians (and Germans) living outside the core areas of the "new" nation-states of Hungary and Austria, although they assumed that the problem would solve itself over time as they expected that those ethnic Hungarians who were unhappy would gradually sell up and go to live in Hungary , which did not turn out to be the case. The Romanian delegation to Versailles feared in 1919 that the Allies were beginning to favour the partition of Transylvania along ethnic lines in order to reduce the potential exodus and Prime Minister Ion I. C. Bratianu
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 even summoned British-born Queen Marie
Marie of Edinburgh

H.M. The Queen of Romania was a member of the British Royal Family who became the queen consort of Romania as spouse of King Ferdinand I of Romania....
 to France to strengthen their case. The Romanians argued that they had suffered a higher relative casualty rate in the war than either Britain or France and that the Western powers had a moral debt to repay. In absolute terms, Romanian troops had considerably less casulties than either Britain or France, however. The underlying reason of the decison was a secret pact between The Entente and Romania. In the Treaty of Bucharest (1916) Romania was promised Transylvania and territories to the east of river Tisza
Tisza

The Tisza is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It originates in Ukraine, with the White Tisza in the Chornohora and Black Tisza in the Gorgany range, flows partially along the Romanian border, enters Hungary at Tiszabecs, marks Slovakia-Hungarian border, passes through Hungary, and falls into the Danube in central Vojvodina in Serbia...
, provided that she attacked Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, also known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Kaiserlich und k?niglich Monarchy was a state in Central Europe ruled by the House of Habsburg, constitutionally a personal union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary....
 from south-east, where defense was scarce. However, after the Central Powers
Central Powers

The Central Powers was one of the two sides that participated in World War I, the other being the Allies of World War I....
 had noticed the military manouvre, the attempt was quickly choked off and Bucharest fell in the same year.

By the time the victorious Allies arrived in France, the treaty was already settled, which made the outcome inevitable. At the heart of the dispute lay fundamentally different views of the nature of the Hungarian presence in the disputed territories. For the Hungarians the whole of the Carpathian Basin was seen as "home" (including its parts mainly inhabited by non-Hungarians who saw this area as their own "home" as well). The western powers and the American press in particular (as well as most non-Hungarians that lived in the Carpathian Basin) saw the Hungarians as colonial-style rulers who had oppressed the Slavs and Romanians
Romanians

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 since 1000 AD, the foundation year of the Kingdom of Hungary. There was therefore no difference between the Turks giving up Serbia in the late nineteenth century and Hungarians giving up Transylvania or Ruthenia. For most non-Hungarians from the Carpathian Basin it was a process of decolonisation rather than a punitive dismemberment (as Hungarians saw it). The Hungarians saw it so, because, the borders where not ethnically correct, and territories with Hungarian majority were put outside the "mock borders". The British Prime Minister David Lloyd-George was in favour of Irish independence from Britain and saw the claims of the "subject peoples" of the former Habsburg Empire in the same light. The French naturally sided with their "Latin brothers", the Romanians, although Clemenceau personally detested Bratianu. President Wilson
Woodrow Wilson

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 initially supported the outline of a more ethnically correct border line based on the Coolidge Report, led by Harvard Professor A. C. Coolidge
Archibald Cary Coolidge

Archibald Cary Coolidge was an United States educator. He was a Professor of History at Harvard College from 1908 and the first Director of the Harvard University Library from 1910 until his death....
, but later gave in, due to changing international politics and as a courtesy to other allies.

The Hungarians did not regard the outer parts of the former Kingdom of Hungary as colonial territories, but rather part of the core national territory. For Hungarian public opinion, the realisation of losing much of the country's territories and ethnic Hungarians was followed by a lingering bitterness; because they would have preferred to maintain the integrity of the territory for mainly economic and strategic reasons, and claimed that they were ready to give the minorities a great deal of autonomy The outcome of the Treaty of Trianon is to this day remembered in Hungary as the Trianon trauma. The perceived humiliation of the treaty became a dominant theme in inter-war Hungarian politics, analogous with the German reaction to the Treaty of Versailles. All official flags in Hungary were lowered until 1938 when they were raised by one third after southern Slovakia, with 84% Hungarian population, that is to say 550.000 Hungarians was "recovered" following the Munich Conference. For Hungarian pupils in the 1930s each school-day began with a prayer calling for the reversal of the treaty.. The Hungarian irredentism
List of irredentist claims or disputes

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 fuelled not only the revisionist inter-war Hungarian foreign policy
Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)

The Kingdom of Hungary existed from 1919 to 1946 and was a de facto country under Regent Mikl?s Horthy. Horthy officially represented the abdicated Holy Crown of Hungary of Charles I of Austria....
 but became a source of regional tension after the Cold War
Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
 too.

Economic consequences

To understand the economic consequences of the treaty and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, also known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Kaiserlich und k?niglich Monarchy was a state in Central Europe ruled by the House of Habsburg, constitutionally a personal union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary....
, one must apprehend the way the economy of Austria-Hungary functioned.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was one economic unit
Economic and monetary union

An economic and monetary union is a single market with a common currency. It is to be distinguished from a mere currency union , which does not involve a single market....
 with autarkic characteristics
Autarky

An autarky is an Economics that is Self-sufficiency and does not take part in international trade, or severely limits trade with the outside world....
 during its golden age
Golden age

The term Golden age in ancient Greece mythology and legend but can also be found in other ancient cultures . It refers either to the highest age in the Greek spectrum of Iron, Bronze, Silver and Golden ages, or to a time in the beginnings of Humanity which was perceived as an ideal state, or utopia, when mankind was pure and immortal....
 and therefore achieved rapid growth
Economic growth

Economic growth is the increase in the amount of the goods and services produced by an economics over time. It is conventionally measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross domestic product, or real GDP....
, especially in the early 20th century when GNP grew by 1.76%. There was also a division of labour
Division of labour

Division of labour or specialization is the specialization of cooperative Labour in specific, circumscribed tasks and roles, intended to increase the productivity of labour....
 present throughout the empire: that is, in the Austrian Empire manufacturing industries were highly advanced, while in the Kingdom of Hungary an agri-industrial economy had emerged. By the late 19th century economic growth of the eastern regions consistently surpassed that of western, thus discrepancies eventually began to diminish. The key success of fast development was specialization
Specialization

Specialisation, also spelt specialization, is an important way to generate propositional knowledge, by applying general knowledge, such as the theory of gravity, to specific instances, such as "when I release this apple, it will fall to the floor"....
 of each region in fields that they were best.

Hungary was the main supplier of wheat, rye, barley and other various goods in the empire and that made up a large portion of the empire`s export, too. Meanwhile, the Czech Republic (Kingdom of Bohemia) owned 75% of the whole industrial capacity of formal Austria-Hungary. This clearly shows that the various parts of the formal monarchy were economically interdependent. To further illustrate this point, post-Trianon Hungary produced 500% more agricultural goods than it needed for itself and mills around Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
 were one of the largest ones in Europe at the time; now forced to operate at 20% level. As a consequence of the treaty, all the competitive
Competitiveness

Competitiveness is a comparative concept of the ability and performance of a firm, sub-sector or country to sell and supply goods and/or services in a given market....
 industries of the formal empire were compelled to close doors, as great capacity was met by negligible demand owing to economic barriers presented in the form of the new borders.

Furthermore, post-Trianon Hungary possessed 90% of the engineering and printing industry of the Kingdom, while only 11% of timber
Timber

Timber may refer to:* Lumber, i.e. wood materials* Timber, Oregon, an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Oregon* Timber , a 1984 arcade game by Bally Midway...
 and 16% iron
Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
 was retained. In addition, 61% of arable land
Arable land

In geography, arable land is an agriculture term, meaning land that can be used for growing agriculture. Arable land is currently being lost at the rate of over 200,000 km? per year....
, 74% of public road, 65% of canals, 62% of railroads, 64% of hard surface roads, 83% of pig iron
Pig iron

Pig iron is the intermediate product of smelting iron ore with coke , usually with limestone as a flux. Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 3.5?4.5%, which makes it very brittle and not useful directly as a material except for limited applications....
 output, 55% of industrial plants and, most of all, 67% of credit and banking institutions of the former Kingdom of Hungary lay within the territory of Hungary's neighbours. New borders also bisected transport links - in the Kingdom of Hungary the road and railway network had a radial structure, with Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
 in the centre. Many roads and railways, running along the new borders and interlinking radial transport lines, ended up in different, highly introvert countries. Hence, much of the rail cargo traffic of the emergent states was virtually paralyzed. These factors all combined created staggering unbalances in the artificially separated, core economic regions of the formal Monarchy.

The disseminating economic chaos had been also noted in the Coolidge Report, as a very serious potential aftermath of the treaty. In spite of this fact, the warning was not taken into account during the negotiations. Thus, the resulting uneasiness and despondency of the concerned population was later one of the main antecedents of World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. Unemployment
Unemployment

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 levels in Austria, as well as in Hungary, were dangerously high, and industrial output dropped by 65%. What happened to Austria in industry
Industry

An industry is the manufacturing of a Good or Service within a category. Although industry is a broad term for any kind of economic production, in economics and urban planning industry is a synonym for the secondary sector, which is a type of economic activity involved in the manufacturing of raw materials into goods and products....
, happened to Hungary in agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
 where production of grain declined by more than 70%. Austria, especially the imperial capital Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
, was a leading investor
Investment

Investment or investing is a term with several closely-related meanings in business management, finance and economics, related to Saving or deferring Consumption ....
 of development projects throughout the empire with more than 2.2 billion crown capital. This sum sunk to a mere 8.6 million crowns after the treaty took effect and resulted in a starving of capital in other regions of the former empire.

The disintegration of the multi-national state conversely impacted neighbouring countries, too: In Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria a fifth to a third of the rural population could find no work, and industry was in no position to absorb them.

In comparison, by 1921 the new Czechoslovak state reached 75% of its pre war production owing to their favorable position among the victors, thus greater access to international rehabilitation resources.

With the creation of customs barriers
Customs

Customs is an authority or Government agency in a country responsible for collecting and safeguarding Duty and for controlling the flow of goods including animals, personal effects and hazardous items in and out of a country....
 and fragmented protective economies
Protectionism

Protectionism is the economic policy of restraining trade between nations, through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, restrictive import quota, and a variety of other restrictive government regulations designed to discourage imports, and prevent foreign take-over of local markets and companies....
, the economic growth
Economic growth

Economic growth is the increase in the amount of the goods and services produced by an economics over time. It is conventionally measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross domestic product, or real GDP....
 and outlook in the region sharply declined; which in the end culminated in a deep recession
Recession

In economics, the term recession describes the reduction of a country's gross domestic product for at least two Calendar_year#Quarters. The usual dictionary definition is "a period of reduced economic activity", a business cycle contraction....
. It proved to be immensely challenging for the successor states to successfully transform their economies in order to adapt to the new circumstances. All the formal districts of Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, also known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Kaiserlich und k?niglich Monarchy was a state in Central Europe ruled by the House of Habsburg, constitutionally a personal union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary....
 used to rely on each other's export
Export

Export goods or services are provided to foreign consumers by domestic Production theory basics. It is a good that is sent to another country for sale....
s for growth and welfare
Welfare

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; by contrast, 5 years after the treaty, traffic of goods between the countries dropped to less than 5% of its former value. This could be put down to the introduction of aggressive nationalistic policies by local political leaders.

The drastic shift in economic climate forced the countries to re-evaluate their situation and to promote industries where they had fallen short. Austria and Czechoslovakia subsidized the mill, sugar and brewing industries, Hungary attempted to increase the efficiency of iron, steel, glass and chemical industries
Chemical industry

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. The stated objective was that all countries should become self sufficient. This tendency, however, lead to uniform economies and competitive economic advantage of long well-established industries and research fields
Research

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  evaporated. The lack of specialization adversely affected the whole Danube-Carpathian region caused a distinct setback of growth and development compared to the West as well as high financial
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 vulnerability and instability.

Other consequences

Romania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia had to assume part of the financial obligations of the former Kingdom of Hungary on account of the parts of its territory under their sovereignty.

Military considerations diverted the Treaty from the Wilson principles , making economic cooperation within the Carpathian Basin even more difficult. Conditions were similar to those imposed on Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 by the Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaty at the end of World War I. It ended the declaration of war between German Empire and Allies of World War I....
; the Hungarian army was to be restricted to 35,000 men and there was to be no conscription. Further provisions stated that in Hungary, no railway would be built with more than one track (even going so far as to remove one of the two tracks on one of the lines), due to the fact that at that time railways held a substantial strategical importance economically as well as military.

Hungary also renounced all privileges in territories outside Europe that belonged to the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy.

Articles 54–60 of the Treaty required Hungary to recognize various rights of national minorities within its borders.

See also

  • Treaty of Versailles
    Treaty of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaty at the end of World War I. It ended the declaration of war between German Empire and Allies of World War I....
  • History of Hungary
    History of Hungary

    Hungary is a state in central Europe, its history under this name dating to the early Middle Ages, when the region previously known as Pannonia was colonized by the Magyar nomad people from what is now central-northern Russia....
  • History of Romania
    History of Romania

    This article provides only a brief outline of each period of the History of Romania; details are presented in separate articles ....
  • History of Slovakia
    History of Slovakia

    This article discusses the history of the territory of Slovakia....
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Further reading

For lingering effects of the Treaty on the geo-politics of Hungary and the successor states:

  • Ernest A. Rockwell: Trianon Politics, 1994-1995, thesis, Central Missouri State University, 1995.


For minorities in post-Trianon Hungary:

  • József Kovacsics: Magyarország történeti demográfiája : Magyarország népessége a honfoglalástól 1949-ig, Budapest : Közgazd. és Jogi Kiadó ; 1963 Budapest Kossuth Ny.


  • Lajos Thirring: Az 1869-1980. évi népszámlálások története és jellemzoi [kész. a Központi Statisztikai Hivatal Népesedésstatisztikai Foosztályán], Bp. : SKV, 1983


For events preceding the Treaty and for minorities in the post-Trianon successor states:

  • Erno Raffay: Magyar tragédia: Trianon 75 éve. Püski kiadó (1996)


  • Vitéz Károly Kollányi: Kárpáti trilógia. Kráter Muhely Egyesület (2002)


  • Macartney, Carlile Aylmer October Fifteenth - A History of Modern Hungary 1929-1945. Edinburgh University Press (1956)


  • Juhász Gyula: Magyarország Külpolitikája 1919-1945. Kossuth Könyvkiado, Budapest (1969).


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