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Switch to right-hand traffic in Czechoslovakia

The switch to right-hand traffic in Czechoslovakia was a change in the rule of the road in 1938–1939.

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
The occupation of the Czech part of the country by Nazi Germany and its transformation into the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (in German: Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren) on 15 March 1939 sped up the change. A few places switched the same day (e.g. Ostrava), the rest of the area of the Protectorate following a decree on 17 March, and Prague got a few more days to implement the change and switched on 26 March. ==Slovakia==
Slovakia
Right hand traffic was already introduced in Slovakia by a decree of the government of "autonomous Slovakia" within Czechoslovakia in late 1938. After the creation of the Slovak State in March 1939, buses in the capital Bratislava were adapted, and the last roads in Slovakia switched to the new system in 1940/1941. The areas which are nowadays the southern border regions of Slovakia were subsequently part of Hungary (under the terms of the First Vienna Award), and did therefore change to right hand traffic as late as 1941, together with the rest of wartime Hungary. ==See also==
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