Vilmos Tkálecz ( sl, Vilmoš Tkalec January 8, 1894 – May 27, 1950) was a Hungarian-Slovenian schoolmaster and politician who served as governor of the short-lived

Republic of Prekmurje The Republic of Prekmurje ( hu, Vendvidéki Köztársaság, Mura Köztársaság; sl, Murska Republika, Republika Prekmurje; Prekmurje Slovene: ''Reszpublika Szlovenszka okroglina'', ''Mörszka Reszpublika'') was an unrecognized state in Prek ...

in 1919. Tkálecz was born on January 8, 1894, in

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, Prekmurje, in Zala County of the

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. His father István Tkálecz was an innkeeper, and his mother was Mária Hochhoffer, who was of

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descent. In 1917, he enlisted in the army and was sent to

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. After

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, he worked as a schoolteacher in

Črenšovci Črenšovci (; hu, Cserföld) is a settlement in the Prekmurje region in northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Črenšovci. Črnec Creek, a tributary of the Ledava, flows past the settlement. The parish church A p ...

( hu, Cserföld), near Lendava. Under the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Tkálecz was an assistant to the clerk Béla Obál while he stayed in Murska Sobota. On May 29, 1919, Tkálecz declared Prekmurje a republic. On June 6, the

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was sent to Murska Sobota and overthrew the state. Tkálecz went into exile to

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sometime during 1920, and later found work as a teacher in

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, where he remained for many years. He died in

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in 1950. After 1929 he changed his name to ''Vilmos Tarcsay''. In 1939 wrote a

Prekmurje Slovene Prekmurje Slovene, also known as the Prekmurje dialect, East Slovene, or Wendish ( sl, prekmurščina, prekmursko narečje, hu, vend nyelv, muravidéki nyelv, Prekmurje dialect: ''prekmürski jezik, prekmürščina, prekmörščina, prekmör ...

textbook called ''Vend-szlovenszka kniga cstenya.''

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