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Treaty of Trianon

Treaty of Trianon
Signing the Treaty on 4 June 1920.
NameTreaty of Trianon
Long NameTreaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Hungary
Image Width300px
CaptionSigning the Treaty on 4 June 1920.
Date Signed4 June 1920
Location SignedVersailles, France
Date Effective31 July 1921
SignatoriesHungary and Allied and Associated Powers 1. Principal Allied Powers (Entente) France France
United States
Kingdom of Italy
Empire of Japan
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Other Allied Powers
title=Other Allied Powers
Belgium
Republic of China
Cuba
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Kingdom of Greece
Nicaragua
Panama
Poland Poland
Portugal Portugal
Romania Romania
Thailand
Kingdom of Yugoslavia

2. Hungary Kingdom of Hungary, successor of the former Austria-Hungary, the latter was a member of the Central Powers
DepositorFrench Government
LanguagesFrench, English, Italian
WikisourceTreaty of Trianon

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The Treaty of Trianon was the peace agreement signed in 1920, at the end of World War I, between the Allies of World War I and Hungary (a successor state to Austria-Hungary). The treaty greatly redefined and reduced Hungary's borders. From its borders before World War I, it lost 72% of its territory, which was reduced from 325111 sqkm to 93073 sqkm. It also lost 64% of its total population, which was reduced from 20.9 million to 7.6 million, and 31% (3.3 out of 10.7 million) of its ethnic Hungarians, who suddenly found themselves living outside the newly defined borders of Hungary. Hungary lost five of its ten most populous cities and was deprived of direct access to the sea and of some of its most valuable natural resources. The military establishment of the country was reduced to an army of about 35,000, while its navy ceased to exist.

The principal beneficiaries of territorial adjustment were Romania, Czechoslovakia, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In addition, the newly established state of Hungary had to pay war reparations to its neighbours. The Hungarian delegation signed the treaty under protest on 4 June 1920 at the Grand Trianon Palace in Versailles, France. Hungary recovered part of lost territories in 1938 - 1940 under Third Reich auspices. It was later reduced to boundaries approximating those of 1920 by the peace treaties signed after World War II at Paris, in 1947.

The treaty was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on August 24, 1921.

Treaty of Trianon internationally guaranteed Hungarian borders.


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