On June 4, 1920, at the Grand Trianon palace in Versailles, Hungary’s delegation was forced to sign the peace treaty concluding the First World War. The Treaty of Trianon took about two-thirds of the territory of the historic Kingdom of Hungary and assigned it to neighboring states, leaving some three million Hungarians outside the new borders.
The treaty was negotiated without meaningful Hungarian participation and drew borders that ignored the ethnic map of the region. More than a century later, its consequences shape the lives of the Hungarian communities in Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine and Serbia, whose rights to their language, schools and churches AHF continues to defend. Read our coverage of Hungarian communities beyond the borders and AHF’s Trianon page.
The AHF supports justice and minority rights for Hungarian communities living across the border.