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Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II. Carpathian Ruthenian Jews arrive at Auschwitz –Birkenau, May 1944. Without being registered to the camp system, most were killed in gas chambers hours after arriving. Carpathian Ruthenia was a region in the easternmost part of Czechoslovakia (Subcarpathian Ruthenia, or Transcarpathia) that became an ...
Under pressure from its Sudeten German minority, supported by neighbouring Nazi Germany, Czechoslovakia was forced to cede its Sudetenland region to Germany on 1 October 1938 as part of the Munich Agreement. It also ceded southern parts of Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia to Hungary and the Trans-Olza region in Silesia to Poland. This, in ...
Extent of Kievan Rus', 1054–1132. Ruthenia[a] is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin, as one of several terms for Kievan Rus'. [1] It is used to refer to Rus' region, a triangular area which mainly corresponds to the tribe of Polans in Dnieper Ukraine. [2] It is also used to refer to the East Slavic and Eastern Orthodox people of the ...
Transcarpathia[a] (Ukrainian: Закарпаття, romanized: Zakarpattia) [b] is a historical region on the border between Central and Eastern Europe, mostly located in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast, with smaller parts in eastern Slovakia (largely in Prešov Region and Košice Region) and the Lemko Region in Poland.
Czechoslovakia. Soviet Union. In 1944 and 1945, the Red Army pushed out the Royal Hungarian Army and took control of Carpathian Ruthenia, also called Transcarpathia. In 1945 and 1946, the region was annexed by the Soviet Union from the (Third) Czechoslovak Republic, which the Allies considered to be the legal owner of the territory beforehand.
The Holocaust. Jews from Carpathian Ruthenia arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. During World War II, once the legal government of Hungary was overthrown by the Germans, the "Final Solution" of the Holocaust was also extended to Carpathian Ruthenia. To be sure, the legal government of Hungary and its fascist elements had already played a ...
History of Czechoslovakia. With the collapse of the Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, the independent country of Czechoslovakia [1] (Czech, Slovak: Československo) was formed as a result of the critical intervention of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, among others.
History of Czechoslovakia. The First Czechoslovak Republic emerged from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in October 1918. The new state consisted mostly of territories inhabited by Czechs and Slovaks, but also included areas containing majority populations of other nationalities, particularly Germans (22.95 %), who accounted for more ...