<P> Regarding the ceded territories, the treaty stated that "Germany and Austria - Hungary intend to determine the future fate of these territories in agreement with their population" with few other effects than the appointment of German rulers to the new thrones of Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland . </P> <P> The provisions of the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I obliged Germany to cede some territory to other countries . Besides the loss of the German colonial empire the territories Germany lost were: </P> <Ul> <Li> Alsace - Lorraine, which were part of Germany for 48 years, in accordance with the Preliminaries of Peace signed at Versailles on 26 February 1871, and the Treaty of Frankfurt of 10 May 1871, returned under French sovereignty without a plebiscite as a precondition to armistice (i.e. and therefore not as a clause of the Treaty of Versailles) with effect from the date of the armistice (11 November 1918), (14,522 km or 5,607 sq mi, 1,815,000 inhabitants (1905)). </Li> <Li> Northern Schleswig including the German - dominated towns of Tondern (Tønder), Apenrade (Aabenraa) and Sonderburg (Sønderborg) in Schleswig - Holstein, after the Schleswig Plebiscite, to Denmark (3,984 km or 1,538 sq mi, 163,600 inhabitants (1920)). </Li> <Li> The Prussian provinces Posen and West Prussia, which Prussia had annexed in Partitions of Poland (1772--1795), were given to the new country of Poland . Most of this territory had already been liberated by local Polish population during the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918 - 1919 (53,800 km or 20,800 sq mi, 4,224,000 inhabitants (1931), including 510 km or 200 sq mi and 26,000 inhabitants from Upper Silesia). Minor areas of both the provinces remained in Germany and were combined to become the new Prussian province of Grenzmark Posen - West Prussia . In these territories ceded to Poland, a sizeable German population remained . </Li> <Li> The Hlučín Region (Hlučínsko around Hulczyn) of Upper Silesia to Czechoslovakia (area 316 or 333 km2, 49,000 inhabitants). </Li> <Li> East Upper Silesia, to Poland (area 3,214 km or 1,241 sq mi out of 10,950 km or 4,230 sq mi - around 30% with 965,000 inhabitants), after Upper Silesia plebiscite in which 60% had voted in favor of remaining German and 40% wanted whole Upper Silesia to become Polish . The vote was designed to provide guidance on how to divide the area, and most of the areas voting for Poland were separated from Germany . </Li> <Li> The area of Eupen - Malmedy to Belgium, along with the Vennbahn railway trackbed (which created six German enclaves within Belgian territory). </Li> <Li> The northern part of East Prussia as Memelland under control of France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, later transferred to Lithuania without a vote . </Li> <Li> The area of Soldau in East Prussia (a railway station on the Warsaw - Danzig route) to Poland (area 492 km or 190 sq mi). </Li> <Li> From the eastern part of West Prussia and the southern part of East Prussia Warmia and Masuria, an area to Poland (see East Prussian plebiscite); contrary what nationalists claim, that ethnicity should determine national identity, the majority of the Slavonic Masurians voted to remain part of Germany . </Li> <Li> The Saar area to be under the control of the League of Nations for 15 years, after that a vote between France and Germany, to decide to which country it would belong . During this time the coal was given to France . </Li> <Li> The port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) with the delta of Vistula river at the Baltic Sea was made the Free City of Danzig (Freie Stadt Danzig) under the League of Nations . (area 1,893 km or 731 sq mi, 408,000 inhabitants (1929)), 90% Germans . </Li> <Li> Germany acknowledges and will respect strictly the independence of Austria . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Alsace - Lorraine, which were part of Germany for 48 years, in accordance with the Preliminaries of Peace signed at Versailles on 26 February 1871, and the Treaty of Frankfurt of 10 May 1871, returned under French sovereignty without a plebiscite as a precondition to armistice (i.e. and therefore not as a clause of the Treaty of Versailles) with effect from the date of the armistice (11 November 1918), (14,522 km or 5,607 sq mi, 1,815,000 inhabitants (1905)). </Li>

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