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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Treaty of Trianon

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

Every summer, Orbán gives a speech in Transylvania, in the hills of Băile Tuşnad, which is home to an enclave of ethnic Hungarians who were stranded in Romania after the Treaty of Trianon.

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