Slovak People's Republic
Short-lived state in 1918
Eastern Slovak Republic Východoslovenská republika Tót Népköztársaság | |||||||||
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| 1918–1918 | |||||||||
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| Status | Unrecognized state | ||||||||
| Capital | Košice | ||||||||
| Common languages | Slovak, Hungarian, German | ||||||||
| Government | Republic | ||||||||
| Historical era | World War I | ||||||||
• Established | December 11 1918 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | December 29 1918 | ||||||||
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Slovak People's Republic (Slovak: Slovenská ľudová republika) or the Eastern Slovak Republic (Slovak: Východoslovenská republika) was a short-lived state that lasted from 11 December to 29 December 1918.
The Eastern Slovak National Council was established as an organisation concurrent to the Slovak National Council in November 1918.[1] The council was led by Viktor Dvorcsák [sk], an advocate and ex-archivist from Prešov working for of the Hungarian revisionist movement.[2] Before the war, Dvorcsák created a theory about so-called Slovjaks [sk], allegedly an independent nation living in Eastern Slovakia. After the war, he defended the integrity of the historic Hungary, and when he was unsuccessful, he declared that the Slovjaks should exercise the right to self-determination and proclaimed Eastern Slovak People's Republic on 11 December 1918 in Košice. Dvorcsák became the president and tried to orientate his state toward the unity with Hungary.[3] His activities met with the disagreement of several national councils in eastern Slovakia.[4] The state ceased to exist shortly after with the arrival of the Czechoslovak Army. Dvorcsák fled to Budapest, where he worked for Hungarian irredentism and lobbied abroad for the revision.[2]
References
- ^ Rychlík 2015, p. 71.
- ^ a b Deák 1991, p. 18.
- ^ Rychlík 2015, p. 72.
- ^ Jancura 2008.
Sources
- Deák, Ladislav (1991). Hra o Slovensko [The Game for Slovakia] (in Slovak). Bratislava: VEDA, Vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied. ISBN 80-224-0370-9.
- Rychlík, Jan (2015). Česi a Slováci ve 20. století: Spolupráce a konflikty 1914-1992 [Czechs and Slovaks in the 20th Century: Cooperation and Conflicts 1914-1992] (in Czech). Praha: Vyšehrad. ISBN 978-80-7429-631-4.
- Jancura, Vladimír (11 December 2008). "Keď východniari mali vlastnú republiku" [When Eastern Slovaks had their own republic]. Pravda (in Slovak). Retrieved 27 June 2016.
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Timeline of Czechoslovak statehood
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| Bohemia Moravia Silesia | Austrian Empire | First Republica | Sudetenlandb | Third Republic | Fourth Republice 1948–1960 | Czechoslovak Socialist Republicf 1960–1990 | Czech and Slovak Federative Republic 1990–1992 | Czech Republic | ||
| Second Republicc 1938–1939 | Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1939–1945 | |||||||||
| Slovakia | Kingdom of Hungary | Slovak Republic 1939–1945 | Slovakia | |||||||
| Southern Slovakia and Carpathian Ukrained | ||||||||||
| Subcarpathian Ruthenia | Zakarpattia Oblastg 1944 / 1946 – 1991 | Zakarpattia Oblasth 1991–present | ||||||||
| Austria-Hungary | Czechoslovak government-in-exile | |||||||||
| a ČSR; boundaries and government established by the 1920 constitution. | e ČSR; declared a "people's democracy" (without a formal name change) under the Ninth-of-May Constitution following the 1948 coup. | |||||||||
