THE NEW MAP OF EUROPE.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 September 1919, Page 5

THE NEW MAP OF EUROPE.

VERY MUCH AS IT WAS 200 Y-EARS Sir Sidney“ Lorwe-.‘=~observ'é§ in the; Fortnightly Review Itliaft a. curious point ‘ about_ the Versailles.’ terms‘ _Of‘ p_e“ace _i§l;that {the territorial rearrangérnefité -Hm-a}__&;e a _large.'p_a'rt of the ‘new [Europe ;_§tl._angely. like ‘the. _ol(lV.Europ'e "of, say,. _IOO ye~al?s;ago. There wast then a'unit'eds ._an,-d., , independent Polgand, . ineluding West A-Prussia, and coming down to the Balt_ie,_ a kingdom of Bohemia ’c'ov‘eiiug . the Czechlo-Sllevalg coun'tries,_i '\a kingdom of Hungary, 3, Ukraine er Ruthenia, divided oif from Muscdvite Russia, a separate Courland and Esthenia, a greater Servia or Jugvo=-Slavia, a Greek kingdom -occupying the rest -of the Balkan lands except the Dalma-ti-an coast or islands, which were nnder an Italian Republic.

In the intervening period most of these minor States and national units were absorbed into the four great imperial aggregriate those of Austria, Russia and Turkey, and Prussia-Ger» ‘many. The war leaves the Empires -broken‘, and the mediaeveal kingdoms ‘and republics revived, so that the map of Central’, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe in: the 20th century’ will rather strikingly resemble that‘ which might have been drawn at the opening of the Ith. The sponge is passed over half a thousand years of. ‘rno’na.i~’chieal Stateconsolidation and _dynastie <enlpiremaking; * 1. _ _ A