The Great War, 1871–1923 · THE MAP IN JUL 1923

Map of Europe in July 1923

The map of 1923 · after WWI

Europe in July 1923: The map of 1923. Since August 1920, 13 territories changed status on this map: including Ottoman Empire, Georgia (Russian Empire), Armenia (Russian Empire) and 10 more.

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Map of Europe in July 1923 (after WWI): The map of 1923. Colours show The Entente & Allies, Entente-aligned & imperial territories, Russia in revolution. — JUL 1923 · THE GREAT WAR, 1871–1923

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · Maps of History: Great War geographic decisions · US Army: American Forces in Germany · German Federal Archives: occupation of the Ruhr, 1923 · Treaty of Versailles: Rhineland occupation

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Source polygons retained with original identities; geographic selections and corrections by Maps of History.. CC BY 4.0
Made with Natural Earth; geographic reference and physical land only. No modern political boundary is used as a historical boundary.. Public domain
Maps of History. Campaign-sector connectors and contextual regions are identified separately from imported vector outlines.. Original geographic reconstruction using attributed historical evidence
US Army Medical Department history; Moselle Valley from Luxembourg to Rhine, Trier and Koblenz. Boundary derived from treaty river and bridgehead provisions rather than an absent annual control polygon.. US government historical geographic evidence
Bundesarchiv,11 January 1923; geographic industrial district occupation.. Historical evidence citation; no artwork copied
Versailles articles 428–432; Rhineland occupation and bridgeheads.. Historical treaty facts; original geographic reconstruction

Annual source features can describe claims, legal territory or military control. Occupied extensions are separated from the prewar Central Power homelands, while the original source names and shapes remain available.

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Layer records and reconstruction methods

What changes on the map

Ottoman Empire	Empires in collapse (1918–22) → Neutral or unaligned
Georgia (Russian Empire)	Neutral or unaligned → Russia in revolution
Armenia (Russian Empire)	Neutral or unaligned → Russia in revolution
Poland (partitioned)	Neutral or unaligned → The Entente & Allies
Czech lands (Austria-Hungary)	Neutral or unaligned → The Entente & Allies
Slovakia (Hungary)	Neutral or unaligned → The Entente & Allies
Serbia	Neutral or unaligned → The Entente & Allies
Macedonia (Serbia)	Neutral or unaligned → The Entente & Allies
Kosovo (Serbia)	Neutral or unaligned → The Entente & Allies
Montenegro	Neutral or unaligned → The Entente & Allies
Bosnia (Austria-Hungary)	Neutral or unaligned → The Entente & Allies
Croatia (Hungary)	Neutral or unaligned → The Entente & Allies
Slovenia (Austria-Hungary)	Neutral or unaligned → The Entente & Allies

On the ground

Allied forces occupied the Rhineland in 1919–30. From January 1923, French and Belgian forces also occupied the Ruhr.
Between the wars, the blue western lands belonged to Poland, with the Riga border of 1921 and Vilnius from 1920–22. In the far south-west of today’s Ukraine, blue lands belonged to Czechoslovakia and Romania.
Subcarpathian Ruthenia belonged to Czechoslovakia from 1919 to 1939.
The parchment-colored west and north of today’s Poland belonged to Germany between the wars. Danzig was a Free City under the League of Nations.
East Prussia was German territory between the wars.
The League of Nations protected the Free City of Danzig.
The Sanjak of Alexandretta (grey-tan) remained part of French-mandated Syria until 1939.

The chapters of this moment

CH 15 — Europe’s new borders after WWI

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