Subject: Re: Moving borders
Date: Sep 20, 2002 @ 10:21
Author: marco_polito ("marco_polito" <marco_polito@...>)
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Who could ask for more?
Congratulations!

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@t...> wrote:
> marco_polito [mailto:marco_polito@y...]
>
> 1) Klaipeda (formerly Memel)
>
> until 1568: Polish-Lithuania
> until 1629: Polish
> until 1635: Sweden
> until 1757: Poland
> until 1762: Russia
> until 1795: Poland
> until 1807: Russia:
> from 1807 Prussia: Memel becomes the capital
> until 1918 German Reich
> from 1918 Lithuania
> 1919-1923 French administration under the League of Nations
> until 1939 Lithuania
> until 1945 Germany (Well, in 1939 Germany pressures Lithuania to
give up
> Klaipeda and Hitler personally visits the city to proclaim its
> re-incorporation into the German Reich = Lithuania, but occupied by
the
> German Reich.)
> until 1991 (Soviet Union) Lithuania, but occupied by the Soviet
Union
> since 1991 (Free) Lithuania
>
> Jan
> Vilnius, Lietuva