Trianon and the consequences
Somoskőújfalu and Somoskő were part of Czechoslovakia for four years. Then they returned!
The Trianon peace dictate ended the First World War with heavy territorial losses for Hungary. Only in a few cases was it later possible to have the strict borders modified – such as in 1924 in the northern Hungarian villages of Somoskő and Somoskőújfalu. That year, the two towns north of Salgótarján returned to Hungary!
On the occasion of the centenary, Mayor Anita Katalin Tábori invited the former Speaker of Parliament Katalin Szili as a keynote speaker. Szili emphasized that the residents of these settlements at the time were lucky that there were people who believed that change was possible. The Council of the League of Nations awarded the villages back to Hungary on February 15, 1924 following years of negotiations.
Hungary thus received back 15 km2 of the 61,631 km2 that had been awarded to Czechoslovakia in Trianon. But one should also remember the three members of the former border commission who helped with the return: the British Lieutenant Colonel Wilfrid Carey, the Japanese Major Andó Rikicsi and the Hungarian General Gábor Tánczos. The Japanese officer was posthumously made an honorary citizen of the town.
On Remembrance Day, the bell of the village church was rung and the film “The Homecoming Village” was played.
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