On 12 August 1919, with the approval of the Paris Peace Conference, Yugoslav forces crossed the River Mura and occupied the western parts of two Hungarian parishes, Zala and Železna. The occupation of this territory lasted until June 2020[!], when the Treaty of Trianon finally granted the occupied area to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. This land, which for centuries had been part of the Kingdom of Hungary, suddenly found itself within a new political entity and the local population had to come to terms with a new political, social and cultural reality. This contribution describes the changes which the new authorities implemented in Prekmurje immediately after the occupation and the reaction of the local population to these changes.
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