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Pál Prónay

1874–c. 1947 · 20th century

Pál Prónay was a Hungarian army officer who commanded one of the paramilitary detachments of the White Terror after the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919. Opposing the transfer of western Hungary to Austria, his irregulars proclaimed the short-lived Banate of Leitha at Oberwart in October 1921. Arrested by Soviet forces in 1945, he died in captivity.

Pál Prónay
Image: József KOSSAK (1855-1922) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Banate of Leitha

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Pál Prónay. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/pal-pronay
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