Second Hungarian Republic
| Hungarian Republic | ||||||||||
| Magyar Köztársaság | ||||||||||
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Anthem Himnusz Hymn |
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.png) Extent of the Hungarian Republic in 1949.
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| Capital | Budapest | |||||||||
| Languages | Hungarian | |||||||||
| Religion | Christianitya · Judaism | |||||||||
| Government | Parliamentary republic | |||||||||
| President | ||||||||||
| • | 1946–1948 | Zoltán Tildy | ||||||||
| • | 1948–1949 | Árpád Szakasits | ||||||||
| Prime Minister | ||||||||||
| • | 1946–1947 | Ferenc Nagy | ||||||||
| • | 1947–1948 | Lajos Dinnyés | ||||||||
| • | 1948–1949 | István Dobi | ||||||||
| Legislature | National Assembly | |||||||||
| Historical era | Cold War | |||||||||
| • | Established | 1 February 1946 | ||||||||
| • | Paris Peace Treaty | 10 February 1947 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 20 August 1949 | ||||||||
| Area | ||||||||||
| • | 1946 | 93,073 km² (35,936 sq mi) | ||||||||
| • | 1947 | 93,011 km² (35,912 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||
| • | 1949 est. | 9,204,799 | ||||||||
| Density | 99 /km² (256.3 /sq mi) | |||||||||
| Currency |
Pengő / Adópengő b Forint |
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| Today part of |
 Hungary Slovakiac
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| a. | Predominantly Roman Catholic. | |||||||||
| b. | Until 1 August 1946. | |||||||||
| c. | Bratislava bridgehead until 10 February 1947. | |||||||||
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The Second Hungarian Republic (Hungarian: Magyar Köztársaság) was a parliamentary republic briefly established after the dissolution of the Kingdom of Hungary on 1 February 1946 and dissolved on 20 August 1949. It was succeeded by the People's Republic of Hungary.
From September 1944 until April 1945, as World War II in Europe drew to a close, the Red Army occupied Hungary. The Siege of Budapest lasted almost two months and much of the city was destroyed. Neither the Western Allies nor the Soviet Union supported any changes to Hungary's pre-1938 borders, so the peace treaty signed by Hungary in 1947 declared that "The decisions of the Vienna Award of 2 November 1938 are declared null and void". This meant that Hungary's borders were moved back to those that existed on 1 January 1938 and it lost the territories it had regained between 1938 and 1941. The Soviet Union also annexed Sub-Carpathia, some of which had been part of Hungary before 1938. Between 1946 and 1948, half of Hungary's ethnic German minority (around 250,000 people) were deported to Germany and there was a forced "exchange of population" between Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
The Soviets set up an alternative government in Debrecen on 21 December 1944 before capturing Budapest on 18 January 1945. Zoltán Tildy became the provisional prime minister.
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