Slovak People's Republic
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 theEastern 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 theSlovak National Councilin November 1918.[1]The council was led byViktor Dvorcsák,an advocate and ex-archivist fromPrešovworking for the Hungarian revisionist movement.[2]Before the war, Dvorcsák created a theory about so-calledSlovjaks,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 toself-determinationand proclaimed Eastern Slovak People's Republic on 11 December 1918 inKošice.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 theCzechoslovak Army.Dvorcsák fled toBudapest,where he worked for Hungarianirredentismand lobbied abroad for the revision.[2]
References[edit]
- ^Rychlík 2015,p. 71.
- ^abDeák 1991,p. 18.
- ^Rychlík 2015,p. 72.
- ^Jancura 2008.
Sources[edit]
- Deák, Ladislav(1991).Hra o Slovensko[The Game for Slovakia] (in Slovak). Bratislava: VEDA, Vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied.ISBN80-224-0370-9.
- 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.ISBN978-80-7429-631-4.
- Jancura, Vladimír (11 December 2008)."Keď východniari mali vlastnú republiku"[When Eastern Slovaks had their own republic].Pravda(in Slovak).Retrieved27 June2016.