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Treaty of Trianon

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noun

  1. a peace treaty signed in the Grand Trianon by the Allies and Hungary on June 4, 1920, marking the official end of World War I and greatly reducing Hungary's territory.


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When Ben was an infant, the family fled to the United States to escape a pogrom of Jews after Transylvania was ceded by Hungary to Romania under the 1920 Treaty of Trianon.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2023

In 1920, the Treaty of Trianon gave this area to Czechoslovakia.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2023

Following the Treaty of Trianon, which, after the First World War, divided up the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Szeged found itself at the intersection of Hungary, Romania, and Serbia.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

In 2010, the party passed legislation creating a day of national commemoration for the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, a step that critics saw as reinforcing the Hungarian sense of victimization.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2014

The Treaty of Trianon reduced her territory to 91,114 kilometres—that is, 32.3 per cent.—and the population to 7,481,954, or 41 per cent.

From Peaceless Europe by Nitti, Francesco Saverio

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