Curated category
States and territories established in 1918
- LatviaThe name Latvia derives from the ancient Latgalians, one of four Indo-European Baltic tribes that formed the ethnic core of modern Latvians.
- LithuaniaThe name Lithuania first appeared in written history on the 7th of May 1009, recorded in the Annals of Quedlinburg. A Latinized form called Litua described a…
- Weimar RepublicOn the 9th of November 1918, Philipp Scheidemann stood at a window of the Reichstag building in Berlin and declared the German Republic to a cheering crowd.
- 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.
- CzechoslovakiaOn the 28th of October 1918, a crowd gathered on Prague's Wenceslas Square to hear the declaration of independence. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk returned from…
- EstoniaThe Pulli settlement dates to around 9000 BC, marking the earliest known human habitation in Estonia. Glaciers of the last ice age melted between 13,000 and…
- PolandIn 966, the ruler of the West Slavic tribe known as the Polans accepted Western Christianity under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church.
- YugoslaviaOn the 13th of July 1922, the Conference of Ambassadors in Paris granted international recognition to a new state that would soon be known as Yugoslavia.
- Second Polish RepublicOn the 7th of October 1918, a Regency Council in Warsaw announced its intention to restore Polish independence. This declaration came just days before…