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Name: Free State of Bottleneck

Type: Polity

Start: 1919 AD

End: 1923 AD

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Was a short-lived de-facto state that resulted from the fact that the French and American occupation forces in German Rhineland after World War I had drown their zones as Circles, with the result that a strip of land wasn't part of any other polity at all.

Establishment

  • January 1919: A narrow area between the Rhine and the unoccupied part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, remained unoccupied after the end of the First World War from January 10, 1919 to February 25, 1923, during the Allied occupation of the Rhineland. The so-called Free State of Bottleneck was effectively isolated from the rest of unoccupied Germany and was therefore left to its own devices both politically and economically. It was not a state in the sense of international law.

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    Disestablishment

  • February 1923: Due to rampant smuggling activities, the "Bottleneck Free State" had already been occupied by the French from February 1923 to November 1924.

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