Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1938 following the First Vienna Award
Note: The white line shows the northern border of the Kingdom before the First Vienna Award. “k.e.e.” is the short form of “közigazgatásilag egyelőre egyesített” (=administratively temporarily unified)
by hunmapper
Background:
The First Vienna Award was an agreement signed on November 2, 1938, between Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Hungary.
It
was a result of the Munich Agreement in September 1938, which allowed
Germany to annex the Sudetenland, a German-speaking region of
Czechoslovakia.
Territory Transfers:
The main consequence of the First Vienna Award was the transfer of territory from Czechoslovakia to Hungary.
Czechoslovakia had to cede the southern parts of Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia to Hungary.
Slovak Autonomy:
As
part of the award, a new autonomous state, known as the Slovak State
(Slovenský štát), was created for Slovaks within the remaining
Czechoslovak territory. Jozef Tiso became the president of this puppet
state.
Hungary’s Regained Territory:
The territory Hungary
gained through the First Vienna Award was seen as a restoration of areas
that were once part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of
Trianon in 1920, which had dismembered the Hungarian Kingdom after World
War I. The new border was drawn based on ethnic lines, almost 85% of
the regained territory were ethnic Hungarian.
Impact on Czechoslovakia:
The
First Vienna Award weakened Czechoslovakia significantly, as it lost
important territory, and it highlighted the appeasement policies of
Western European powers, which failed to prevent territorial changes in
the region.