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Description e* Description: Former Eastern Bloc area border changes between 1938 and 1948.
  • Source: Map borders primarily based on File:EC12-1986 European Community map.svg and File:Blank map of Europe in 1920.svg.
  • Author: Mosedschurte, June 1, 2009

The border and other changes include:

  • The creation of the satellite states (note: this was before the Tito-Stalin split and the Hoxha 1960 split)
  • The annexation of the Baltic states
  • The annexation of the territory encompassing most of the Moldavian SSR.
  • The Transnistria transfer from the Ukrainian SSR to the Moldavian SSR
  • The annexation of northern Bukovina, the Hertza region and northern Bessarabia into the Ukrainian SSR.
  • The annexation of the area in 1948 approximating the Izmail Oblast into the Ukrainian SSR
  • The western part of the Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union
  • The annexation into Poland of part of East Prussia and the territories east of the Oder-Neisse line from Germany
  • The annexation into Poland of the Free City of Danzig
  • The annexation of the the area now approximating the Kaliningrad Oblast into the RSFSR
  • The annexation into Bulgaria of Southern Dobruja from Romania
  • The annexation into Czechoslovakia of the Bratislava Bridgehead transfer from Hungary
  • The transfer of the Latvian SSR eastern Abrene district to the RSFSR
  • The transfer of Estonian SSR territories north and South of Lake Peipus to the RSFSR
  • The annexation of the Vilnius region from Poland into what was in 1948 the Lithuanian SSR
  • The annexation of part of the area approximating Karelo-Finnish SSR, and portions then transferred to the RSFSR (part of the Leningrad Oblast)
  • The annexation into the Ukrainian SSR of Carpathian Ruthenia
  • The annexation into Yugoslavia of the Italian Istria peninsula, Fiume and Zadar.
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This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.
Short title Countries of Europe
Image title A blank Map of Europe. Every country has an id which is its ISO-3166-1-ALPHA2 code in lower case. 
Members of the EU have a class="eu", countries in europe (which I found turkey to be but russia not) have a class="europe".
Certain countries are further subdivided the United Kingdom has gb-gbn for Great Britain and gb-nir for Northern Ireland. Russia is divided into ru-kgd for the Kaliningrad Oblast and ru-main for the Main body of Russia. There is the additional grouping #xb for the "British Islands" (the UK with its Crown Dependencies - Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man)

Contributors.
Original Image: ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Europe_countries.svg) Jlio Reis ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tintazul).
Recolouring and tagging with country codes: Marian "maix" Sigler ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Maix)
Improved geographical features:  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:W!B:
Updated to reflect dissolution of Serbia & Montenegro:  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Zirland
Updated to include British Crown Dependencies as seperate entities and regroup them as "British Islands", with some simplifications to the XML and CSS: James Hardy ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MrWeeble)
Released under CreativeCommons Attribution ShareAlike ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/).
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