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  2. Buffer state - Wikipedia

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    Buffer states, when authentically independent, typically pursue a neutralist foreign policy, which distinguishes them from satellite states. The concept of buffer states is part of a theory of the balance of power that entered European strategic and diplomatic thinking in the 18th century. After the First World War, notable examples of buffer ...

  3. Buffer zone - Wikipedia

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    A buffer zone, also historically known as a march, is a neutral area that lies between two or more bodies of land; usually, between countries. Depending on the type of buffer zone, it may serve to separate regions or conjoin them. Common types of buffer zones are demilitarized zones, border zones and certain restrictive easement zones and green ...

  4. Category:Countries by status - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Indonesia; ... Roman buffer states (3 C, 9 P) Rump states (5 C, ... About Wikipedia; Disclaimers; Contact Wikipedia; Code of Conduct; Developers; Statistics;

  5. Border states (Eastern Europe) - Wikipedia

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    The border states were interchangeably Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and, until their annexation into the Soviet Union, short-lived Belarus and Ukraine. The policy tended to see the border states as a cordon sanitaire , [ 2 ] or buffer states , separating Western Europe from the newly formed Soviet Union. [ 2 ]

  6. Roman–Persian Wars - Wikipedia

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    The Roman–Persian Wars, also known as the Roman–Iranian Wars, were a series of conflicts between states of the Greco-Roman world and two successive Iranian empires: the Parthian and the Sasanian. Battles between the Parthian Empire and the Roman Republic began in 54 BC; [ 1 ] wars began under the late Republic, and continued through the ...

  7. Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic - Wikipedia

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    For the German Empire, Operation Faustschlag achieved one of their strategic plans for World War I, to create a German-centered hegemony of buffer states, called Mitteleuropa. On the eve of Germany's occupation of Minsk, some members of the disbanded Belarusian National Council emerged from hiding and formed a provisional government, hoping to ...

  8. Muslim conquest of Persia - Wikipedia

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    Both empires therefore allied themselves with small, semi-independent Arab principalities, which served as buffer states and protected Byzantium and Persia from Bedouin attacks. The Byzantine clients were the Ghassanids; the Persian clients were the Lakhmids. The Ghassanids and Lakhmids feuded constantly, which kept them occupied, but that did ...

  9. Commagene - Wikipedia

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    Anatolia in the early 1st century AD with Commagene as a Roman client state. Commagene (Ancient Greek: Κομμαγηνή) was an ancient Greco-Iranian kingdom ruled by a Hellenized branch of the Orontids, a dynasty of Iranian origin, that had ruled over the Satrapy of Armenia. [4]