border changes
Maps get redrawn
Border changes are alterations to the boundaries between political territories—countries, states, or administrative regions.
These occur through war, treaty, purchase, referendum, or dissolution of states.
The phrase appears most often in historical and geopolitical contexts: The map of Europe underwent dramatic border changes after World War I.
Border changes can trigger population displacement, ethnic conflict, and lasting territorial disputes.
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- land grabRapid territorial acquisition
- demarcationFormal boundary setting
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- treatyBinding pact between nations
peace treaty · partition · unification · redistricting · migration · jurisdiction · colonization · international law · sea level rise · territorial disputes · redrawn · nationalism · nation state · glacial retreat · Yugoslavia · plebiscite · occupation · ethnic conflict
- Eastern EuropePoland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria
- African historyNubia, Dahomey, Oyo Empire, Scramble for Africa, scramble for Africa
- Korean historyJoseon dynasty, Three Kingdoms, DMZ, demilitarized zone, Korean DMZ
- Napoleonic EraNapoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, Bonaparte, Napoleonic Wars, Napoleonic Code
- local historytown history, local archives, local history, village history, founding
- postwarrebuilding, demobilization, peace treaties, treaty signing, war reparations
border changesinternal affairs
Officers investigating officers
domestic policy · constitutional changes · social policy · economic policy