Bratislava bridgehead
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The Bratislava bridgehead is found in the western part of Slovakia. It has an area of {{convert|93.7|km2}}. It is situated on the Little Hungarian Plain, on the left bank of the river Danube. Administratively, it belongs to the district Bratislava V in Bratislava, and has 111,135 inhabitants.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
History
As a result of the Treaty of Trianon - the peace treaty by Hungary that ended its role in First World War - a bridgehead was created for Czechoslovakia on the right bank of river Danube at Bratislava, mainly for defensive purposes. At this time Petržalka was transferred to the newly founded country.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
In October 1938, as part of the Munich Agreement, Petržalka and Devín were transferred to Nazi Germany for strategic purposes.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
At the end of World War II, ceasefire agreements mainly restored the pre-war boundaries, except Carpathian Ruthenia, which became part of Soviet Ukraine as per the Moscow Agreement. A camp for Hungarians and Germans interned for war crimes was located in Petržalka.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
It was an idea of the Czechoslovakia delegation at the Paris Peace Conference that they would need an extended defensive territory at the Bratislava bridgehead.{{cite book| title=Making Minorities History: Population Transfer in Twentieth-Century Europe | first=Matthew | last=Frank | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=2017 | isbn=978-0191017711 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DS5dDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA333 | page=333 | chapter=A Paris Affair }} They sought Dunacsún (Čunovo), Horvátjárfalu (Jarovce), Oroszvár (Rusovce), Rajka and Bezenye. The first three were transferred, creating a territory of 62 km2.
During the 1970s, a microdistrict was built at Petržalka, with a population of 100,000 inhabitants. Today; its four villages are a part of the Bratislava V district.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
Between 1977 and 1992, the Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams was built there. The bridgehead makes the extraction of water to Slovakia possible.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
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Category:Historical geography of Slovakia