1918 · 1920 A Hungarian town in a Slav republicMaďarské mesto v slovanskej republike

In 1918 the town found itself in Czechoslovakia, confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, and its county was cut in half by a border drawn along the Tisa and the Bodrog. Nothing about the town changed except the state: the same people, the same language, new officials and a new capital nine hundred kilometres away. The republic's land reform broke up the great estates across the south, which was felt here as a national question as much as a social one. Kráľovský Chlmec kept its role as the centre of the Bodrogköz, but the market it served now stopped at a frontier.V roku 1918 sa mestečko ocitlo v Československu, čo potvrdila Trianonská zmluva v roku 1920, a jeho stolicu preťala nadvakrát hranica vedená po Tise a Bodrogu. Nezmenilo sa nič okrem štátu: tí istí ľudia, ten istý jazyk, noví úradníci a nové hlavné mesto deväťsto kilometrov ďaleko. Pozemková reforma republiky rozdelila veľkostatky na celom juhu, čo sa tu vnímalo rovnako národnostne ako sociálne. Kráľovský Chlmec si udržal úlohu strediska Medzibodrožia, no trh, ktorý obsluhoval, sa zrazu končil na hranici.