Lajtabánság
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Lajtabánság, or the Banate of Leitha, was a short-lived western Hungarian state in the region that today forms the Austrian state of Burgenland. It existed between 4 October and 10 November 1921, foll
In 1921, Major Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek leads a detachment of mounted gendarmes through Sopron in support of the West-Hungarians who are protesting the Trianon Treaty which would turn over West Hungary to Austria.
A provisional 2.5 forint stamp
Pál Prónay, leader of the Rongyos Gárda
Members of the Rongyos Gárda on the proclamation of Lajtabánság in Oberwart
The interwar Kingdom of Hungary, referred to retrospectively as the Regency and the Horthy era, existed as a country from 1920 to 1946 under the rule of Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary, who officiall
Lajtabánság
…forms the Austrian state of Burgenland. It existed between 4 October and 10 November 1921, following the Treaty of Trianon and the departure of the rump Kingdom of Hungary's army and after the Sopron plebiscite was held in the area according to the Venice Protocol. The principal leaders of the state were Pál Prónay, Count…
Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary
István Bethlen, Prime Minister of Hungary.
Hungarian armor and infantry in retreat, August 1944
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