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Territorial Disputes and the Re-Drawing of the Map of Europe	Map of Europe in 1914. Image credit: UK National Archives.

There were several key (and exceptionally thorny) territorial questions that occupied the diplomats at the Paris Peace Conference. And no matter how they chose to redraw boundaries, there were going to be upset people and protests about the end result. There was a great summary of some of these pressing boundary issues in Europe in Current History (April 1919), "Boundary Disputes in Europe: Maze of Difficult and Delicate Problems Confronting the Peace Conference," (*.pdf file) including some maps. Listed below are some of the key territorial issues in Europe and around the world that the diplomats faced in Paris. I hope to eventually get around to explaining what the Conference did (or did not do) in each case.

Source for the cartoon is Current History, May 1919

THE BIGGER PROBLEMS

Polish Corridor

Saar

Silesia

Rhineland

THE LITTLER PROBLEMS

Memel	South Tyrol	Sudetenland	Shanghai
Thrace	Fiume	Asia Minor	Transylvania
Cyprus	Heligoland	Albania	Ukraine
Shantung	Ipek circumspection	Sanjak of Alexandretta	Strumitsa Enclave

THE NEW COUNTRIES IN EUROPE

Austria	Hungary	Czechoslovakia	Yugoslavia
Poland	Estonia	Latvia	Lithuania
Turkey

Suggested Reading

Suitors and Suppliants: The Little Nations at Versailles by Stephen Bonsal (1946)

Territorial Disputes and the Re-Drawing of the Map of Europe