Which additional realistic cases of countries voluntarily giving up their own territory can you think of? This is akin to an Alternate History Challenge. In real life, we had:
-Piedmont-Sardinia give up Nice and Savoy to France in 1860
-The UK giving most of Ireland independence in 1921
-France give Algeria independence in 1962
There were also a couple of attempts where the people chose not to secede but had the opportunity to do so, such as in both Scotland and New Caledonia over the last decade.
I'm not counting the USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia breakups here since those states ceased to exist.
Anyway, which additional realistic cases of this could there have been? I can personally think of a surviving Austria-Hungary (one that avoids World War I) voluntarily giving up Galicia to an independent Poland that eventually breaks away from Russia and splitting Bukovina between Poland and Romania or alternatively giving all of Bukovina to Romania. This would be done as a way to solidify Austria-Hungary's ties with those countries and in the Polish case could even be done in exchange for having Poland install a Hapsburg king.
Anyway, what do you think?
-Piedmont-Sardinia give up Nice and Savoy to France in 1860
-The UK giving most of Ireland independence in 1921
-France give Algeria independence in 1962
There were also a couple of attempts where the people chose not to secede but had the opportunity to do so, such as in both Scotland and New Caledonia over the last decade.
I'm not counting the USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia breakups here since those states ceased to exist.
Anyway, which additional realistic cases of this could there have been? I can personally think of a surviving Austria-Hungary (one that avoids World War I) voluntarily giving up Galicia to an independent Poland that eventually breaks away from Russia and splitting Bukovina between Poland and Romania or alternatively giving all of Bukovina to Romania. This would be done as a way to solidify Austria-Hungary's ties with those countries and in the Polish case could even be done in exchange for having Poland install a Hapsburg king.
Anyway, what do you think?