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unusual facts about Treaty of Brest-Litovsk


Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

At the insistence of Talat Pasha, the treaty declared that the territory Russia took from Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), specifically Ardahan, Kars, and Batumi, were to be returned.


Bezirk Bialystok

The borders of this area ran from the southeastern protrusion of East Prussia (the Suwalki triangle) following the Neman river up to Mosty (excluding Grodno), including Volkovysk and Pruzhany up to the Bug River to the west of Brest-Litovsk and then following the border of the General Government to East Prussia.

Brest Litovsk Voivodeship

Brest Litovsk Voivodeship (Belarusian: Берасьцейскае ваяводзтва, Polish: Województwo brzesko-litewskie ,) was a unit of administrative territorial division and a seat of local government (voivode) within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) since 1566 until the May Constitution in 1791, and from 1791 to 1795 (partitions of Poland) as a voivodeship in Poland.

Brisk

Brest, Belarus (Brest-Litovsk) Brisk (בריסק) is the city's name in Yiddish

Directorate of Ukraine

while Petliura left the SDPists, thus demonstrating that the Ukrainian government has changed its political agenda and is not the same that signed the treaty in Brest-Litovsk.

Gusztáv Gratz

He took part in the peace negotiations' economical parts during the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and Treaty of Bucharest.

Henryk Kowalski

When war finally began in 1939, Kowalski was arrested by Germans in Wegrow while on his way to join his family in Brest-Litovsk.

Ion I. C. Brătianu

This situation was ended by the October Revolution in Russia and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between the Bolshevik government and the Central Powers: Romania saw itself without reinforcements, agreed to an armistice, and then signed the Treaty of Bucharest in May 1918.

Joshua Höschel ben Joseph

After his marriage to the daughter of Rabbi Samuel of Brest-Litovsk, he became rabbi of the city of Grodno, whence he was called to the rabbinate of Tiktin (Tykocin), and later to that of Przemyśl.

Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki

After the temporary breakdown of the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations on February 10, Dowbor-Muśnicki joined the German offensive against the Bolsheviks on February 18 and took Minsk.

Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron

In 1812, Langeron was given command of a corps in the Army of the Danube with which he fought at Brest-Litovsk and on the Berezina.

Moses ben Isaac Judah Lima

When a comparatively young man he successively occupied the rabbinates of Brest-Litovsk and Slonim.

Polish I Corps in Russia

After the temporary breakdown of the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations on February 10, the Corps also received a status of auxiliary unit from the Germans and joined the German offensive against the Bolsheviks on February 18, taking Minsk.

Rumcherod

Later the Soviet republic was forced to comply with the conditions of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and withdraw due to the advance German-Austrian military first to Nikolayev, then to Rostov-on-Don and Yeysk.

Vasyl Avramenko

The tour passed through Lviv several times between 1922 and 1924, while also visiting Rivne, Lutsk, Kremianets, Oleksandriia, Mezhirich, Kholm, Brest-Litovsk, Stryi, Stanyslaviv, Kolomyia, Przemyśl, Deliatyn, Ternopil, and Drohobych in that time.


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