Lajtabánság
| Banate of Leitha Lajtabánság | |||||||||||
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| 1921–1921 | |||||||||||
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 Map indicating present-day Burgenland in Austria, the region where the short-lived Hungarian occupied and governed Lajtabánság existed. | |||||||||||
| Status | Unrecognized state | ||||||||||
| Capital | Oberwart | ||||||||||
| Government | Republic | ||||||||||
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| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||||
• Established | October 4 1921 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | November 5 1921 | ||||||||||
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Lajtabánság or Banate of Leitha (German: Leitha-Banat) was a short-lived western Hungarian state in the region where the Austrian federal state of Burgenland now exists. It existed between October 4 and November 5, 1921, following the Treaty of Trianon and the departure of the rump Kingdom of Hungary's army and after the Sopron referendum was held in the area according to the Venice protocol.
The principal leaders of the state were Pál Prónay, Count Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek and former Hungarian prime minister István Friedrich. Its military was the Rongyos Gárda ("Ragged Guards" or "Scrubby Guards"), recruited from former army soldiers, peasants and students devoted to retaining the region rather than surrender it to Austria.
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