Rapallo Border Treaty

This article deals with the treaty between Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 1920, the treaty between the German Empire and the Russian SFSR see Treaty of Rapallo

When signing the contract: SHS Foreign Minister Ante Trumbić is in the center , Giovanni Giolitti , Prime Minister of Italy , seated on the right

On November 12, 1920, Italy agreed in the Rapallo Border Treaty with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1929 ) on border issues.

Background and results

The background to the conclusion of the contract were decisions in the Treaty of Saint-Germain from 1919. There, Trieste , Istria , Zadar and parts of the coastal region of Italy were granted, while Dalmatia and Rijeka (Fiume) were granted to the Yugoslavs.

The main result was that the city of Rijeka (Italian: Fiume) including its hinterland became the Independent Free State of Fiume . Zadar (ital. Zara), the coastal strip and some islands off the Dalmatian coast, including the island of Lastovo (ital. Lagosta), all parts of the former Austro-Hungarian territory, fell to Italy. This in turn renounced its ambitions regarding the city and surroundings of Split .

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  Italy before the Rapallo border treaty in 1870

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  Italy after the Rapallo Border Treaty in 1919

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  Map of the Italian territory of Zara / Zadar

literature

• Aleksandar Jakir: Dalmatia between the world wars. Agrarian and urban living environment and the failure of Yugoslav integration (= Southeast European work 104). Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56447-1 , p. 101 (also: Erlangen, Nürnberg, Univ., Diss., 1997).
• Arnold Suppan : Yugoslavia and Austria 1918–1938. Bilateral foreign policy in the European environment (= publications by the Austrian Institute for East and Southeast Europe 14). Oldenbourg et al., Munich et al. 1996, ISBN 3-486-56166-9 , p. 234.