At the end of WWI in November 1918, the Slovenes in the Prekmurje region were opposed joining their motherland. Since 1917, the region was overflown with declaration movement for autonomy within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, while movement for the preservation of Slovenian nation had been present ever since Counter- -Reformation, when the foundation of Prekmurje language was set by Prekmurje protestant writers: Ferenc Temlin, Mihail Sever and Števan Küzmič. Catholic priests, especially Mikloš Küzmič, Franc Ivanocy and Jožef Klekl, who as the editor of Novine newspaper gained the title of the person who raised national identity awareness in Prekmurje Slovenes, strived to establish the use of the Prekmurje language. The strivings for the annexation of Prekmurje Slovenes were present as early as in the 1848 revolution, when the author of the United Slovenia program, Matija Majar Ziljski, and the Styrian Slovene Oroslav Caf demanded the annexation of the Prekmurje region to the Slovene territory. The Prekmurje Slovenes were among the participants of the first Slovene rally in August 1868 in Ljutomer. From October to December 1918, three rallies in the support of annexation to motherland held place, and while Maister wanted to occupy the region with his military, he was not allowed to proceed with his plans by Slovene national government in Ljubljana, Serbian supreme command and French military mission which had to obey the Beograd ceasefire treaty of 13 November 1918. Prekmurje gained its borders in 1919 and 1920. On 10 September the peace treaty of St. Germain determined the border with Austria on the Kučnica river, while the border with Hungary was not signed until 4 July 1920 due to socialist revolution in the country. American expert, Major Douglas W. Johnson, is foremost credited for the annexation of Prekmurje to its motherland. In May 1919 he suggested in Paris that the border be northern from the river Mur. The suggestion was included in the agenda of the Supreme Council on 9 July 1919 and the Paris Peace Treaty determined that the border is to be set between the rivers Mur and Raba. With that, nine predominantly Slovene villages including Monošter (Szengotthárd) fell under Hungary, while Prekmurje was now a part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The news about the border between Mur and Raba reached the Yugoslav delegation on 4 August, and the city of Beograd on 6 August, and so on 12 August the regular army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes under the command of General Krsta Smiljanić marched into Prekmurje. The authority was handed over to the civil commissioner on 17 August, which is the day on which the people of Prekmurje nowadays celebrate their holiday of annexation to motherland. The setting of the border between Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes lasted from 1921 to 1924, when a tripoint border stone was erected in the village of Trdkova. The coat-of-arms of the Republic of Slovenia was imbedded in 1993.