Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II
| Governorate of Subcarpathia Kárpátaljai Kormányzóság | |||||||||||
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| Region of the Kingdom of Hungary | |||||||||||
| 1939–1945 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Ungvár | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• 1941 | 11,583 km2 (4,472 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1941 | 621,916 | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| • Type | Military, later civil administration | ||||||||||
| Regent's Commissioner | |||||||||||
• 1939–1940 | Zsigmond Perényi | ||||||||||
• 1940–1941 | Miklós Kozma | ||||||||||
• 1942–1944 | Vilmos Pál Tomcsányi | ||||||||||
• 1944 | András Vincze | ||||||||||
| Historical era | World War II | ||||||||||
| 15–18 March 1939 | |||||||||||
• Military administration | 18 March 1939 | ||||||||||
| 23–31 March 1939 | |||||||||||
• Annexation | 23 June 1939 | ||||||||||
• Civil administration | 7 July 1939 | ||||||||||
• Military operational zone | 1 April 1944 | ||||||||||
• Soviet invasion | 2–28 October 1945 | ||||||||||
| 10 February 1947 | |||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | Administrative delegations
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| Today part of | Slovakia Ukraine | ||||||||||
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Carpathian Ruthenia (also called Carpatho-Rus, Subcarpathian Ruthenia, and Transcarpathia) was a region in the easternmost part of Czechoslovakia which in September 1938 became an autonomous region within that country. On 15 March 1939 it declared its independence as the "Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine"; however, on that same day it was occupied and annexed by Hungary.
Beginning in October 1944, the territory was occupied by the Soviet Red Army and was briefly organized as Transcarpathian Ukraine (1944—1946), until in 1946 it was incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Between 1939 and 1944, 80,000 Carpathian Ukrainians perished.