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    Miklós Horthy

    Regent of Hungary from 1920 to 1944

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  1. Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (Hungarian: Vitéz Nagybányai Horthy Miklós; Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈviteːz ˈnɒɟbaːɲɒi ˈhorti ˈmikloːʃ]; English: Nicholas Horthy; German: Nikolaus Horthy von Nagybánya; 18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957) was a Hungarian admiral and statesman who served as the regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar period and most of World War II ...

  2. Mar 14, 2024 · Miklós Horthy (born June 18, 1868, Kenderes, Hung., Austria-Hungary—died Feb. 9, 1957, Estoril, Port.) was a Hungarian naval officer and conservative leader who defeated revolutionary forces in Hungary after World War I and remained the country’s head of state until 1944.

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  3. Miklós Horthy at the annexation of south-east Czechoslovakia, Kassa (present-day Košice), 11 November 1938 CC BY-SA 3.0. On an early page of Night, Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical ...

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  5. The Kingdom of Hungary ( Hungarian: Magyar Királyság ), referred to retrospectively as the Regency and the Horthy era, existed as a country from 1920 to 1946 [a] under the rule of Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary, who officially represented the Hungarian monarchy. In reality there was no king, and attempts by King Charles IV to return to the ...

  6. Jan 7, 2021 · For Miklós Horthy, it was the best of times, the apogee of his reign as regent. In April 1941, when Hitler’s legions marched through Hungary and into Yugoslavia, the Hungarian Third Army marched with them, adding more than 8,000 square miles to Horthy’s Hungary.

  7. HORTHY, MIKLÓS (1868–1957) Hungarian statesman. Regent of Hungary during the turbulent period from 1920 until his arrest by the Nazis in 1944, Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya was born into a noble Protestant family in 1868. As a young man he served in the Austro-Hungarian navy, quickly ascending the ranks to become one of the navy's most valued ...

  8. Horthy, Miklós (Admiral Horthy) Naval officer, Regent of Hungary. Born 18 June 1868 in Kenderes, Hungary. Died 09 February 1957 in Estoril, Portugal. Horthy was a naval officer of Austria-Hungary. During the First World War he was first in command of a cruiser and then chief commander of the navy.

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