{"id":1735,"date":"2005-01-30T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T03:49:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-30T20:49:38","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T03:49:38","slug":"more-on-hungary-and-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/30\/more-on-hungary-and-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Hungary and Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In responding to <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/letters\/?articleid=4634\">Sophie Johnson&#8217;s letter<\/a> yesterday, I said that Vojvodina was ceded to Yugoslavia by the Treaty of Trianon (1920). A fellow historian wrote me yesterday to say that while this is technically correct, Serbia&#8217;s claim to this territory is even stronger: a popular assembly of Serbs &#8211; but also Slovaks, Ruthenians, Wallachs and others &#8211; living in areas of Baranja, Backa and Banat voted on 26 November 1918 to join the Kingdom of Serbia. Another area within today&#8217;s Vojvodina, Srem, had a similar assembly a day earlier. (Parts of Baranja and Srem were given to Croatia by the Communists after 1945). The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) &#8211; a union between the Kingdom of Serbia and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (teritories formerly ruled by Austria-Hungary, with the exception of Vojvodina) was established on 1 December 1918. Yugoslavia was therefore not <i>created<\/i> by the Treaty of Versailles, but <i>recognized<\/i> therein as an independent state. This is obvious from the text of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.byu.edu\/~rdh\/wwi\/versa\/tri1.htm\">Treaty of Trianon<\/a>, which explicitly mentions the &#8220;Kingdom of the Serbs, the Croats and the Slovenes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In responding to Sophie Johnson&#8217;s letter yesterday, I said that Vojvodina was ceded to Yugoslavia by the Treaty of Trianon (1920). A fellow historian wrote me yesterday to say that while this is technically correct, Serbia&#8217;s claim to this territory is even stronger: a popular assembly of Serbs &#8211; but also Slovaks, Ruthenians, Wallachs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}