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Podkarpatska Rus (Cecoslovacchia : Province) CercaDefinizione
From 1919 to 1938 the territory in the Carpathian region formed a province of the Czechoslovak Republic. The province officially bore the name of Podkarpatska Rus (Subcarpathian Rus). An integral part of the Czechoslovak Republic until the Munich Pact (September 1938), Podkarpatska Rus was relatively autonomous within the loose political entity called the Second Czecho-Slovak Republic. From November 2, 1938, through March 15, 1939, the province, renamed Carpatho-Ukraine, lost the predominantly Hungarian-populated portion of its territory, including the cities of Uzhorod and Mukacevo. During this period Podkarpatska Rus still retained the status of an autonomous province. For a few days, starting on March 15, 1939, Carpatho-Ukraine excercised its independence, calling itself the state of Karpatska Ukraina, with the capital in the city of Chust. This independence was short lived. By the end of March 1939, Hungarian troops had liquidated the last strongholds of the Ukrainian resistance in the Carpathian Mountains and annexed Karpatska Ukraina to Hungary.
In 1945 Czechoslovakia ceded its former province to the USSR. Soon after, it was renamed the Transcarpathian Oblast. Presently, with slight changes, its borders reflect those of the former Podkarpatska Rus.
Capital: Uzhorod (en-US)
Fonte
Rothschild, Joseph. East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1992. p. 74