Lithuania_territory_1939-1940.svg
Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file:
761 × 600 pixels
.
Other resolutions:
305 × 240 pixels
|
609 × 480 pixels
|
974 × 768 pixels
|
1,280 × 1,009 pixels
|
2,560 × 2,018 pixels
|
2,479 × 1,954 pixels
.
Legend
- Borders and other
Border of Lithuania (1945 – present)
Border of
Vilnius Region
: Polish territory; claimed by Lithuania based on the
Soviet–Lithuania Peace Treaty
of 1920; occupied by the Soviet Union in September 1939
Soviet military bases established in Lithuania according to the
Soviet–Lithuania Mutual Assistance Treaty
, signed on October 10, 1939
- Klaipėda Region
Klaipėda Region
: detached from the German Empire by the Treaty of Versailles; placed under administration of the Entente; taken by Lithuanians during the
Klaipėda Revolt
in January 1923; returned to Nazi Germany
after an ultimatum
on March 20, 1939
- Sudovia
Territory west of the
Šešupė River
: Lithuanian territory; requested by Nazi Germany in the
German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty
on September 28, 1939; occupied by the Soviet Union on June 15, 1940; Nazi Germany relinquished its claims for a compensation in the amount of $7.5 million on January 10, 1941
"Suwałki Triangle": Polish territory; claimed by Lithuania; occupied by Nazi Germany in September 1939
Southern
Suvalkai Region
: Polish territory; claimed by Lithuania; occupied by the Soviet Union in September 1939
Vilnius Region
Western Vilnius Region: transferred to Lithuania based on the
Soviet–Lithuania Mutual Assistance Treaty
, signed on October 10, 1939
Western Vilnius Region: transferred to
Lithuanian SSR
on November 6, 1940
Eastern Vilnius Region: by
Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty
assigned to Lithuania in July 12, 1920
Summary
| Description | Map of territorial disputes and claims regarding Lithuania in 1939-1940 |
| Date | |
| Source | Self-made using Inkscape; used Image:LithuaniaPhysicalMap-Clean.svg by Knutux for some background features; Source map: (2001) Lietuvos istorijos atlasas , Vilnius: Vaga, p. 44 & 45 |
| Author |
This
W3C-unspecified
vector image
was created with
Inkscape
.
|
|
Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
GFDL & all CC-BY-SA |
| Other versions |
[
]
|
Licensing
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:
|
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License , Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation ; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License . |
This file is licensed under the
Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike
4.0 International
,
3.0 Unported
,
2.5 Generic
,
2.0 Generic
and
1.0 Generic
license.
-
You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
-
Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
You may select the license of your choice.