Hungarian Republic (1919–1920)
The Hungarian Republic (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.
Hungarian Republic | |||||||||
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| 1919–1920 | |||||||||
| Anthem: Himnusz Hymn | |||||||||
| Status | Unrecognised rump state until 25 November 1919 | ||||||||
| Capital | Budapest | ||||||||
| Common languages | Hungarian | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism · Calvinism · Lutheranism · Eastern Orthodoxy · 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 | National Assembly | ||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||
• Established | 8 August 1919 | ||||||||
• Recognized | 25 November 1919 | ||||||||
| 25 January 1920 | |||||||||
| 29 February 1920 | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| 1920 | 92,833 km2 (35,843 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1920 | 7,980,143 | ||||||||
| Currency | Hungarian korona | ||||||||
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Following this period, the Allies of World War I severely pressured the Hungarians into retreating behind post-war demarcation lines as a provision to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, which was the Allies' attempt to establish new nation states among the former kingdom's non-Hungarian citizens, the principal beneficiaries of which were the Kingdom of Romania, 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.