2 – 25 November 1938 Cut off by a new border — and the revolt that followedOdrezaní novou hranicou — a vzbura, ktorá prišla po nej

The First Vienna Award of 2 November 1938 handed a broad strip of southern Slovakia to Hungary, and here the new line ran just north of Rožňava: Hungary took the town and twenty-one villages of the district, and the district seat moved to Dobšiná. Kobeliarovo was one of eighteen villages of the Štítnik valley left with no railway and no road to the rest of Slovakia at all. Men lost their jobs in mines that were suddenly on the far side of a border, and food and fuel stopped coming in. Between 22 and 25 November the valley revolted: a crowd of about 1,500, mostly women, marched on Štítnik, gendarmes were brought in from Brezno, martial law was declared at Rakovnica and eleven people were arrested. Some of the demands are hard reading — Slovak villages asking to be annexed to Hungary, because the valley was economically finished either way. Border traffic was partly restored on 5 December.Prvá viedenská arbitráž z 2. novembra 1938 odovzdala Maďarsku široký pás južného Slovenska a nová čiara tu viedla tesne severne od Rožňavy: Maďarsko dostalo mesto a dvadsaťjeden obcí okresu a sídlo okresu sa presťahovalo do Dobšinej. Kobeliarovo bolo jednou z osemnástich obcí štítnickej doliny, ktorým neostalo do zvyšku Slovenska ani železničné, ani cestné spojenie. Chlapi prišli o prácu v baniach, ktoré sa zrazu ocitli za hranicou, a do doliny prestali chodiť potraviny aj palivo. Od 22. do 25. novembra sa dolina vzbúrila: asi tisícpäťsto ľudí, prevažne žien, vyrazilo na Štítnik, četníkov museli povolať až z Brezna, v Rakovnici vyhlásili štatárium a jedenásť ľudí zatkli. Niektoré požiadavky sa čítajú ťažko — slovenské dediny žiadali pripojenie k Maďarsku, lebo dolina bola tak či tak hospodársky stratená. Hranicu čiastočne otvorili 5. decembra.