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By Andrzej Chwalba Many states were born or reborn that created a new political architecture between the years 1918 and 1921 in Europe. Most of them defended and preserved in the following years the autonomy gained in the aforementioned period. Among them, some, as was Poland, returned to the state-building history interrupted in the late eighteenth century. While others, like Latvia or Estonia, Slovakia in the context Czechoslovakia or Slovenia within the Serbian-Croatian-Slovenian Federation appeared on the map for the first time. None of the new states was able to regain all the land it owned before the fall. The…