January–July 1919 · 1922 Three flags in seven monthsTri vlajky za sedem mesiacov

Czechoslovak legionaries occupied Rimavská Sobota in January 1919, the forces of the Hungarian Soviet Republic took it in May, and Czechoslovakia had it back by July. Once the border settled, the town lost the thing it had lived on: in 1922 the county of Gemer-Malohont was abolished in the Czechoslovak reorganisation, and the offices went. A town built to administer a county, inside a new state that did not want that county, had to find something else to be — and it never entirely did.V januári 1919 obsadili Rimavskú Sobotu československí legionári, v máji ju prevzali vojská Maďarskej republiky rád a v júli ju mala späť Československá republika. Keď sa hranica ustálila, prišlo mesto o to, z čoho žilo: roku 1922 Gemersko-malohontskú župu pri československej reorganizácii zrušili a úrady odišli. Mesto postavené na tom, aby spravovalo stolicu, muselo v novom štáte, ktorý o tú stolicu nestál, nájsť inú náplň — a celkom sa mu to nikdy nepodarilo.