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Horthy

American  
[hawr-tee] / ˈhɔr ti /

noun

  1. Miklós von Nagybánya 1863–1957, Hungarian admiral: regent of Hungary 1920–44.


Horthy British  
/ ˈhorti /

noun

  1. Miklós (ˈmikloːʃ), full name Horthy de Nagybánya. 1868–1957, Hungarian admiral: suppressed Kun's Communist republic (1919); regent of Hungary (1920–44)

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Its main mission is to provide revisionist interpretations of 20th-century Hungarian history — including the reign of Miklos Horthy, the autocrat who led Hungary before and during the Second World War.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2018

Miklos Horthy, who led Hungary from 1920 to 1944 and orchestrated the country’s World War II alliance with Nazi Germany, and a poster saying, “Radical Change.”

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2014

Schiff cites the statue just erected in the centre of Budapest of Admiral Miklos Horthy, Hungary's wartime leader.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2013

In Hungary in 1919, after a brief Communist regime, military forces and wealthy landowners joined to make Admiral Miklós Horthy the first European postwar dictator.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

The Terror at the End On October 15, 1944, Regent Horthy was arrested by the Germans and the new Nazi-dominated regime of Szalasi was installed.

From The Grey Book by Snoek, Johan Martinus