| Banat of Leitha Lajtabánság |
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| Unrecognized state | |||||
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| Map of present-day Burgenland in Austria, the area of the short-lived state of Lajtabánság | |||||
| Capital | Oberwart | ||||
| Political structure | Unrecognized state | ||||
| Leaders | Pál Prónay | ||||
| Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek | |||||
| István Friedrich | |||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||
| - Established | October 4, 1921 | ||||
| - Disestablished | November 5, 1921 | ||||
Lajtabánság (German: Leitha-Banat) was a short lived Hungarian state in western Hungary the current territory of the Austrian federal state of Burgenland. The state existed between October 4 and November 5 1921, after the Treaty of Trianon after the army of the rump Kingdom of Hungary left the territory but before Austria annexed the region.
The principal leaders of the state were Pál Prónay, Count Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek and István Friedrich ex-premier. Its military organization was called Rongyos Gárda ("Ragged Guards" or "Scrubby Guards") recruited from peasants and local students devoted not to give up the western Hungarian borderland to the occupying Austrians.