Futurist
Ad Honoris
- May 2014
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Which borders have lasted for an extremely long time with no or almost no changes?
So far, I could think of the borders of the Kingdom of Hungary--which were almost unchanged for something like 900 or 1,000 years with the exception of the couple of centuries when Hungary was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. This is a part of the reason as to why Hungarians were so angry at the Treaty of Trianon--it took away territories that were Hungarian for a millennium!
Also, AFAIK, the Kingdom of Bohemia kept its borders for a very long time--possibly for 1,000 years, but I'm not sure exactly. Bohemia later ended up being a part of A-H, but AFAIK it still remained its own kingdom within Austria. I also know that the Allies' allowed Czechoslovakia to have all of the territory within Bohemia's historical borders even though a lot of it was German-majority and a small part of it (Teschen) was Polish-majority. It's quite interesting, isn't it--the Allies let Czechoslovakia (a nominal victor in WWI) keep Bohemia's traditional borders while Hungary (a defeated country in WWI) was denied the right to keep its traditional borders.
In addition, AFAIK, the East Prussian-Lithuanian border was unchanged for something like 500 years--specifically from the early 15th century to the early 20th century--when WWI changed the situation in regards to this.
Anyway, what other examples of this have there been?
So far, I could think of the borders of the Kingdom of Hungary--which were almost unchanged for something like 900 or 1,000 years with the exception of the couple of centuries when Hungary was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. This is a part of the reason as to why Hungarians were so angry at the Treaty of Trianon--it took away territories that were Hungarian for a millennium!
Also, AFAIK, the Kingdom of Bohemia kept its borders for a very long time--possibly for 1,000 years, but I'm not sure exactly. Bohemia later ended up being a part of A-H, but AFAIK it still remained its own kingdom within Austria. I also know that the Allies' allowed Czechoslovakia to have all of the territory within Bohemia's historical borders even though a lot of it was German-majority and a small part of it (Teschen) was Polish-majority. It's quite interesting, isn't it--the Allies let Czechoslovakia (a nominal victor in WWI) keep Bohemia's traditional borders while Hungary (a defeated country in WWI) was denied the right to keep its traditional borders.
In addition, AFAIK, the East Prussian-Lithuanian border was unchanged for something like 500 years--specifically from the early 15th century to the early 20th century--when WWI changed the situation in regards to this.
Anyway, what other examples of this have there been?