Curated category
States and territories established in 1918
- LatviaLatvia covers 64,573 square kilometres on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, yet its population numbers only 1.83 million people.
- Georgia (country)Georgia sits at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and West Asia, a country of 3.9 million people whose language bears no relation to any other language family…
- LithuaniaLithuania once stretched across more land than any other country in Europe. In the first half of the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania reached…
- Weimar RepublicThe Weimar Republic was born on the 9th of November 1918 from the ruins of a war that had killed more than 20 million people, among them over 2 million…
- Free State of PrussiaOn Saturday, the 9th of November 1918, sailors of the High Seas Fleet mutinied at Kiel and sparked a revolution that would sweep across Germany.
- CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia appeared on the map of Europe in October 1918, carved from the wreckage of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and vanished just as deliberately on…
- EstoniaEstonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, sits at the edge of Northern Europe where the Baltic Sea meets the Gulf of Finland.
- PolandPoland lost the highest percentage of its citizens of any country in the Second World War. Around 6 million people perished, more than one-sixth of the…
- YugoslaviaYugoslavia was a country that held together, for seven decades, peoples who had spent centuries under the rule of rival empires.
- Second Polish RepublicThe Second Polish Republic lasted exactly twenty-one years, and it was taken on the eve of its own anniversary. On the 7th of October 1918, a new Polish…