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Name: France and Belgium (Military Occupation)

Type: Polity

Start: 1922 AD

End: 1926 AD

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france,belgium

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Polity that includes all territories militarly occupied by France and Belgium that are not part of a specific military territory.

Establishment

  • January 1922: The sanctioned area ("Sanktionsgebeiet") also known as the Ruhr region in Germany, was occupied by French and Belgian troops in 1921. This was in response to Germany's failure to meet reparation payments following World War I, as stipulated in the Treaty of Versailles.

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    Disestablishment

  • January 1926: Withdrawal of the Allies of World War I from the Northern Zone around Cologne.

    • Selected Sources

  • Biermann, W. (2017): Konrad Adenauer: Ein Jahrhundertleben, Hamburg (Germany)
  • Lück, D. (1933): Rheinlandbesetzung. In: Nordrhein-Westfalen. Landesgeschichte im Lexikon, Düsseldorf (Germany), p. 341-343

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