Presídlenie a vývoj etnickej štruktúry obyvateľstva na juhu Slovenska v rokoch 1945 – 1948 (na príklade konkrétnych obcí)

Resettlement and development of ethnic structure of the population in the south of Slovakia, 1945 – 1948 (on the example of concrete municipalities) After the Second World War, the Czechoslovak Republic actively participated in migratory movements taking place in Central and Eastern Europe in order to get rid of the two most numerous ethnic groups - Hungarian and German. In order to fulfil its ideas, it used forced relocation, the exchange of population on the basis of an agreement, as well as the internal relocation of the population. The mechanical movement of the population on the territory of Slovakia took place intensively in the southern regions inhabited by the inhabitants of Hungarian nationality. The migration (resettlement, relocation) of the population was able to break the unified ethnic character of southern Slovakia and create ethnically mixed areas. This paper focuses on the means used by Czechoslovakia to reduce the population of Hungarian nationality. We chose municipalities in which various forms of migration appeared, while in each of the selected municipalities a different form of resettlement was dominant and at the same time we monitored its impact on the ethnic structure of the municipality. In the individual municipalities surveyed, based on censuses, there was no radical change in ethnic structure (even in the long term), despite the fact that the number of immigrants was considerable. URL: https://vsas.fvs.upjs.sk