How could Hungary keep Transylvania?

How could the Kingdom of Hungary keep Transylvania, which it lost as a result of the Treaty of Trianon?

A CP-win scenario? A quicker war? No war at all?
 
Axis victory wouldn't get them all of Transylvania, only the northern half.

Actually, Hungary would want the eastern half of Transylvania (Szekely):

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Green areas are Magyar, brown are Romanian, red are German. In the Vienna Award, Hungary also got the area between Szekely and Hungary proper to connect them.

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More was lost at Mohács

Actually, Hungary would want the eastern half of Transylvania (Szekely):

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Green areas are Magyar, brown are Romanian, red are German. In the Vienna Award, Hungary also got the area between Szekely and Hungary proper to connect them.

Reduce the size of the brown areas, remove the red areas entirely and increase the size of the green areas accordingly. However, that would require a POD before 1900 and possibly right back to the Battle of Mohács.
 
How could the Kingdom of Hungary keep Transylvania, which it lost as a result of the Treaty of Trianon?

A CP-win scenario? A quicker war? No war at all?
Hungary might be able to keep some of Transylvania if the victorious Entente/Allies are willing to hold a sector-by-sector plebiscite in Transylvania after the end of World War I.
 
No War in 1914, CP Victory or quick Entente (1914) victory or Axis victory in WW2.

Michael
Completely agreed. The CP and Axis victories and obvious and a quick Entente victory might result in the Entente being less eager to separate Transylvania from Hungary, especially considering that Romania has not yet entered the war on the side of the Entente.
 
Austria-Hungary sues for separatist peace in 1916, at the latest.
Neither UK nor France had direct conflict with KuK, and Russia would be satisfied with just smacking it down a knotch.
Give Galich to Russia, Bosnia to Serbia, if Romania already entered war (but had little to no successes) hand them Bukovin. Italy gets OTL gains in Trento-Bolzano-Trieste.
1916 is absolutely latest date for possible settlement, because as war progresses, increasingly weaker KuK is being propped up more and more by Germany, and no longer has any bargaining position to save itself.

Well, that or CP victory.
 

LordKalvert

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The Hungarians see the hopelessness of the task from the beginning. Once Conrad is defeated in August, 1914 the Hungarians declare independence, elect a Romanov to be their King and attack Austria
 
Hmmm... This is really, really tough, especially because of the fact that between Hungary and Szekely Land, Romanian-speaking population was the majority.

Here's my idea, although it's more appropriate in the pre-1900 period: a certain Magyar tribe, or should I say the "eighth Magyar tribe", converted to Eastern Orthodox at the same time as the other seven tribes converted to Roman Catholicism (so, there's another version of the Curse of Turan in this scenario). In the territory whose OTL counterpart was the land between mainland Hungary and Szekelyland, they inserted their influence by setting up policies like changing the liturgical language of the local Orthodox church to old Hungarian language, convincing local men to join as soldiers, where the language of command was their dialect of Hungarian, and intermingling of Magyarized Turkic clans with the local population in the said area.
 
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