Realm · approximate borders · 1939–1945

Slovak Republic

Declared on 14 March 1939 as Germany broke up Czecho-Slovakia; a client state of Nazi Germany and Axis member, recognised by some 27 states, until the Red Army took Bratislava on 4 April 1945. The southern strip with Košice, Komárno and Lučenec had gone to Hungary by the First Vienna Award (November 1938) and more of the east in the Slovak–Hungarian war of March 1939; small areas of Orava and Spiš were taken from Poland in September 1939.

Sources: Wikipedia 'Slovak Republic (1939–1945)', 'First Vienna Award', 'Slovak–Hungarian War'.

See Slovak Republic on the map in 1939

On the map: 1939–1945
Capital: Bratislava

Rulers named in the sources

Jozef Tiso (president) 1939–1945
Vojtech Tuka (prime minister) 1939–1944
Štefan Tiso (prime minister) 1944–1945

Eastern European states, 82 BC – 1952

States of central-eastern and south-eastern Europe, the Baltic and the north-western Caucasus: Burebista's and Decebalus' Dacia, the principality of Abasgia, Rus' Tmutarakan, Circassia until the Russian conquest of 1864, the Emirate of Bari, the Albanian principalities of Arbanon and the Thopia and Skanderbeg's League of Lezhë, Zeta under the Balšići and Crnojevići, Lombard Negroponte, Acciaioli Athens, the Livonian prince-bishoprics of Riga and Ösel–Wiek, the prince-bishops of Montenegro, the wartime Slovak Republic and post-war Poland before 1953. Few of these frontiers were ever surveyed.