Hungarians constitute the largest minority in Slovakia. According to the 2021 Slovak census, 422,065 people declared themselves Hungarian. An additional 34,089 people declared a combination of Hungari
Hungarians in Slovakia (census 2001) 50–100% 10–50% 0–10%
St. Elisabeth Cathedral in Košice (dedicated to Elisabeth of Hungary), where the Hungarian national hero Francis II Rákóczi is buried with his family
Betliar – Andrássy Castle
János Esterházy – a controversial ethnic Hungarian politician in the mid-war Czechoslovakia and the First Slovak Republic
The Beneš decrees were a series of laws drafted by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in the absence of the Czechoslovak parliament during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War II. Th
Hungarians in Slovakia
…President Edvard Beneš revoked the citizenship of ethnic Germans and Hungarians by decree No. 33, except for those with an active anti-fascist past (see Beneš Decrees). Immediately at the end of World War II, some 30,000 Hungarians left the formerly Hungarian re-annexed territories of southern Slovakia. While…
Edvard Beneš, 1935–1938 and 1940–1948 President of Czechoslovakia
Adolf Hitler being welcomed by a crowd in Sudetenland, where the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party gained 88% of ethnic-German votes in May 1938.
Germans being deported from the Sudetenland after World War II
Hungarians forcibly relocated from Gúta (Kolárovo) unpacking their belongings from train in Mladá Boleslav, Czechoslovakia, February, 1947