World War I and Aftermath
- Russia from 1917 to 1921, particularly under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and during the Western, Polish, Romanian, and Japanese intervention of the Russian Civil War (see also Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War.)
- Ukraine from 1917 to 1921.
- The Democratic Republic of Armenia (from 1917 to 1922), since Turkey remained in control of the majority of its pre-World War I homeland.
- The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, when Southern Ireland became an independent state 1921.
- The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic from 1918 to 1920, since Iran remained in control of the majority of the Azeri historic homeland.
- German Austria, from the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire by the Treaty of Saint-Germain until the Anschluss (its annexation by Nazi Germany) of 1938.
- The Ottoman Empire as envisioned by the Treaty of Sèvres, and then Turkey as recognized in the Treaty of Lausanne after becoming a republic. See also Turkish War of Independence.
- Hungary after the Treaty of Trianon, particularly during intervention by Romania and Czechoslovakia against the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in the summer of 1919 .
- Poland during the summer of 1920, while Soviet Russia occupied the majority of its area in the Polish-Soviet War. (map)
- Spain after the 1936 military rebellion, which increasingly diminished the territory under Government control to a fraction of the Iberian Peninsula
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