Slovak–Hungarian War
| Slovak-Hungarian Border War | |||||||||
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| Part of the interwar period | |||||||||
Territory ceded to Hungary after the war marked in blue (3) | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Hungary | Slovakia | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Miklós Horthy András Littay |
Jozef Tiso Augustín Malár | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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5 infantry battalions 2 cavalry battalions 1 motorised battalion 5 light tanks 70 tankettes 3 armoured cars |
3 infantry regiments 2 artillery regiments 3 tanks 9 armoured cars | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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8 killed 30 wounded Unknown vehicles destroyed 1 fighter destroyed |
22 killed 671 captured 9 fighters destroyed or damaged | ||||||||
| 51 civilians killed | |||||||||
The Slovak–Hungarian War, or Little War (Hungarian: Kis háború, Slovak: Malá vojna), was a war fought from 23 March to 31 March 1939 between the First Slovak Republic and Hungary in eastern Slovakia.