Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II
| Governorate of Subcarpathia Kárpátaljai Kormányzóság |
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| Region of the Kingdom of Hungary | ||||||
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| Capital | Ungvár | |||||
| Government | Military, later civil administration | |||||
| Regent's Commissioner | ||||||
| • | 1939–1940 | Zsigmond Perényi | ||||
| • | 1940–1941 | Miklós Kozma | ||||
| • | 1942–1944 | Vilmos Pál Tomcsányi | ||||
| • | 1944 | András Vincze | ||||
| Historical era | World War II | |||||
| • | Occupation | 15–18 March 1939 | ||||
| • | Military administration | 18 March 1939 | ||||
| • | Slovak–Hungarian War | 23–31 March 1939 | ||||
| • | Annexation | 23 June 1939 | ||||
| • | Civil administration | 7 July 1939 | ||||
| • | Military operational zone | 1 April 1944 | ||||
| • | Soviet invasion | 2–28 October 1944 | ||||
| • | Paris Peace Treaty | 10 February 1947 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| • | 1941 | 11,583 km2(4,472 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| • | 1941 | 621,916 | ||||
| Density | 53.7 /km2 (139.1 /sq mi) | |||||
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Administrative delegations
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| Today part of |
 Slovakia Ukraine
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Carpathian Ruthenia was a region in the easternmost part of Czechoslovakia (Subcarpathian Ruthenia, or Transcarpathia) that became autonomous within that country in September 1938, declared its independence as the "Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine” in March 1939, was immediately invaded and annexed by Hungary, invaded by the Soviet Red Army in 1944 and incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1946.
In November 1938, under the First Vienna Award which resulted from the Munich Agreement, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy prevailed on the Second Czechoslovak Republic to cede the southern third of Slovakia and southern Carpathian Ruthenia (now called Carpatho-Ukraine) to the Kingdom of Hungary. Between 14 March and 15 March 1939, the Slovak Republic formally declared its independence and Nazi Germany occupied Bohemia and Moravia creating the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. On 15 March, Carpatho-Ukraine declared its independence as the Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine, with the Reverend Avhustyn Voloshyn as head of state. Hungary immediately invaded and annexed the new republic. On 18 March, resistance to the invasion ended. On 23 March Hungary annexed further parts of eastern Slovakia west of Carpatho-Rus.
In October 1944, Carpatho-Ukraine was taken by the Soviets. A Czechoslovak delegation under František Němec was dispatched to the area. The delegation was to mobilize the liberated local population to form a Czechoslovak army and to prepare for elections in cooperation with recently established national committees.
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