Árpád line
The Árpád Line was a Hungarian fortress line during World War II , built between 1941 and 1944 in the northeast and eastern Carpathians on the border of the Kingdom of Hungary . It was named after Árpád , the head of the Hungarian tribes. The main function of the line was to protect Transylvania , the Szeklerland and the Carpathian-Ukraine from attacks from the east ( Soviet Union ). The line was designed as the main line of defense. Upstream of this line were the Hunyad Line and Prinz Eugen Line . The line was designed as a flexible line of defense similar to the Finnish Mannerheim Line or the Israeli Bar Lew Line .
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Bunker of the Árpád Line near Ust-Chorna , Ukraine.
Gun bunker of the Árpád line in the valley of the Latorice river
A destroyed bunker on the Árpád line near Yasinia
Hungarian mountaineers in the Carpathians
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.zmne.hu/tanszekek/Hadtortenelem/konyv/arpadvonaleng.htm
- ^ Szabó, József János (2002). The Árpád-line. Budapest: Timp. pp. 62-121. ISBN 9789639614093 .