page_title: Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)
section_title: Territory
hierarchical_section_title: Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919) / Provisions / Territory
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Rozdělení Rakouska-Uherska po první světové válce, podle Pařížských předměstských smluv (Versailles s Německem, Saint-Germain-en-Laye s Rakouskem, Neuilly-sur-Seine s Bulharskem, Trianon s Maďarskem, Sèvres s Tureckem), dojednaných na Pařížské mírové konferenci (1919). Deutsch: Das Ende Österreich-Ungarns nach den Pariser Vorortverträgen. English: The end of Austria-Hungary after the Paris Treaty. &#160;&#160; Border of Austria-Hungary in 1914 &#160;&#160; Borders in 1914 &#160;&#160; Borders in 1920 &#160;&#160; Austrian Empire in 1914 &#160;&#160; Kingdom of Hungary in 1914 &#160;&#160; Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1914
context_page_description: The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye was signed on 10 September 1919 by the victorious Allies of World War I on the one hand and by the Republic of German-Austria on the other. Like the Treaty of Trianon with Hungary and the Treaty of Versailles with Germany, it contained the Covenant of the League of Nations and as a result was not ratified by the United States but was followed by the US–Austrian Peace Treaty of 1921.
  The treaty signing ceremony took place at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
context_section_description: Cisleithanian Austria had to face significant territorial losses, amounting to over 60 percent of the prewar Austrian Empire's territory:
  The Lands of the Bohemian Crown, i.e. the Bohemia and Moravia crownlands (including small adjacent Lower Austrian territories around Feldsberg and Gmünd) formed the core of the newly created state of Czechoslovakia. The Austrian Silesia province upon the Polish–Czechoslovak War of January 1919 was split between Czech Silesia and Polish Cieszyn Silesia incorporated into Silesian Voivodeship. These cessions concerned a large German-speaking population in German Bohemia and Sudetenland.
  The former Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, made up of the territory the Habsburg Monarchy had annexed in the 1772 First Partition of Poland, fell back to the re-established Polish Republic.
  The adjacent Bukovina in the east passed to the Kingdom of Romania.
  The southern half of the former Tyrolean crownland up to the Brenner Pass, including predominantly German-speaking South Tyrol and the present-day Trentino province, together with the Carinthian Canal Valley around Tarvisio fell to Italy, as well as the Austrian Littoral (Gorizia and Gradisca, the Imperial Free City of Trieste, and Istria as recognized by the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920).
  The main part of the former Kingdom of Dalmatia, the Duchy of Carniola and Lower Styria with the Carinthian Mieß (Meža) Valley and Gemeinde Seeland (Jezersko) was ceded to the Yugoslav Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, contrary to what was stipulated by the 1915 London Pact. Also Bosnia and Herzegovina was given to it. The affiliation of the Southern Carinthian territory with its Slovene-speaking share of population was to be decided in a Carinthian Plebiscite.
  Austria-Hungary's only overseas possession, its concession in Tianjin, was turned over to China.
  The predominantly German- and Croatian-speaking western parts of the Hungarian counties of Moson, Sopron and Vas were awarded to Austria. The Uprising in West Hungary led to a plebiscite which resulted in the transition of Sopron and its surrounding 8 villages back to Hungary. Subsequently, other villages were returned or exchanged between Austria and Hungary up to 1923. In the end, the territories finally gained from Hungary were organised as a state of Austria named Burgenland.
  The Allies had explicitly committed themselves to the cause of the minority peoples of Austria-Hungary late in the war. Reflecting this, the Allies not only allowed the minority peoples to help create new states (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), recreate former states (Poland), or join their ethnic brethren in existing nation-states (Romania, Italy), but allowed the successor states to absorb significant blocks of German-inhabited territory. In addition the negotiators on the Allied side, particularly Wilson, did not understand when speaking of self-determination that no convenient line could be drawn to separate intermingled nationalities, and that in further cases, irredentists would claim that some German or Hungarian-inhabited territories had actually been theirs. This was as well rendered by the fact just only a few cases were plebiscites allowed regarding the disputed territories.
caption: Dissolution of Austria-Hungary
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