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Carpatho-Ukraine Карпатська Україна | |||||||||
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| 30 December 1938 – 15 March 1939 | |||||||||
| Anthem: Державний Гімн України Derzhavnyi Himn Ukrainy "State Anthem of Ukraine"[1] | |||||||||
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| Status | Autonomous region of Czecho-Slovakia (1938–1939) Unrecognized state (1939) | ||||||||
| Capital and largest city | Khust | ||||||||
| Official languages | Ukrainian, Hungarian | ||||||||
| Government | Unicameral Republic (1938) One-party state republic (1939)[a] | ||||||||
| President | |||||||||
• 1939 | Avgustyn Voloshyn | ||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||
• 1938–1939 | Avgustyn Voloshyn | ||||||||
• 1939 | Julian Revay | ||||||||
| Legislature | Soim | ||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||
| 30 December 1938 | |||||||||
| 15 March 1939 | |||||||||
| 15 March 1939 | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| 1939 | 13,352 km2 (5,155 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1939 | 796,400 | ||||||||
| Currency | Czechoslovak koruna | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Ukraine | ||||||||
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Carpatho-Ukraine or Carpathian Ukraine (Ukrainian: Карпа́тська Украї́на, romanized: Karpatska Ukraina, IPA: [kɐrˈpɑtsʲkɐ ʊkrɐˈjinɐ]) was an autonomous region, within the Second Czechoslovak Republic, created in December 1938 and renamed from Subcarpathian Rus', whose full administrative and political autonomy had been confirmed by constitutional law of 22 November 1938.[2]
20 years earlier, by the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, the region, which had historically belonged to Hungary, had been detached from the Kingdom of Hungary and attached to newly created Czechoslovakia. Subsequently Hungary had sought revision of the Treaty of Trianon and the restoration of her historical borders.
On 2 November 1938 the First Vienna Award separated territories from Czechoslovakia, including southern Carpathian Rus', that were mostly Hungarian-populated and returned them to Hungary.
After the breakup of the Second Czechoslovak Republic, Carpatho-Ukraine on 15 March 1939 proclaimed itself an independent republic, headed by President Avgustyn Voloshyn, who appealed to Hitler for recognition and support.
Nazi Germany did not reply, and the short-lived state was invaded by the Kingdom of Hungary, crushing all local resistance by 18 March 1939.[1]
The region remained under Hungarian control until the end of World War II in Europe, after which it was occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union. The territory is now administered as the Ukrainian Zakarpattia Oblast.
- ^ a b Magocsi 1978, p. 245.
- ^ Kotowski 2001.