THE MINORITY QUESTION IN HUNGARIAN – YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS
THE MINORITY QUESTION IN HUNGARIAN – YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS

Author(s): Árpád Hornyák
Subject(s): History, Diplomatic history, Recent History (1900 till today), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Minorities; Hungary; Yugoslavia; diplomatic relations; foreign policy
Summary/Abstract: The issue of minorities played a prominent role in the development of Hungarian-Yugoslav diplomatic relations in the interwar period. However, the half a million strong Hungarian minority in Yugoslavia and the South Slav minority in Hungary that, according to official figures, is a fraction of that number (less than 100.000) did not play an equally significant role in shaping diplomatic relations, simply because of their different size. This article describes, based on Hungarian and German sources, how the minority issue influenced the policy of the Hungarian governments towards Yugoslavia between the two World Wars.

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