Demarcation (politics)
As a demarcation ( French démarcation to Old High German marcha , Mark ') or delimitation is the establishment of an intergovernmental dividing line (in international politics demarcation line ) to territorial understood changes or territorial disputes such. B. the armistice line after armistice or ceasefire . As a rule, demarcation takes place through agreements under international law .
List of demarcation lines
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- Fränkisch-Alamannic Mark (about 500-746) of Chlodwig I. between captured areas and the residual semi-autonomous Alamanniens furnished
- the division of the world through the papal bull Dudum siquidem of 1493
- the division of the world for the Spanish and Portuguese crowns under the Treaty of Tordesillas 1494
- Durand Line between British India and the Emirate of Afghanistan 1893
- Inner German border in the earlier language of the Federal Republic of Germany
- the borders between the Allied occupation zones in Germany from 1945 to 1949 as well as the Berlin sector borders from 1949, especially the Soviet ones up to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 around West Berlin
- in Austria the demarcation lines between the individual occupying powers during the occupation in post-war Austria from 1945 to 1955
- the Green Line between Israel and its neighbors, agreed in the 1949 Armistice Agreement
- the demarcation lines between the civil war parties in the east and west of the Lebanese capital Beirut from 1975 to 1990.
- between the territories controlled by Cyprus and Northern Cyprus since 1974
- In Northeastern and Southeastern Europe the demarcation lines between the spheres of interest of Germany and the Soviet Union in accordance with the secret additional protocol to the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 23 and 24 August 1939 and the three secret additional protocols to the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty of September 28, 1939.
- in France the line between the militarily occupied northern zone and the unoccupied southern zone ( Vichy regime ) during the German occupation between 1940 and 1942
- the demilitarized zone between South Korea and North Korea along the 38th parallel between 1945 and 1950