• grue@lemmy.world
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    4 个月前

    Creating new states from territory that nominally belonged to an existing state (in the sense of claiming everything west of their established territory) but was actually unexplored frontier was a little different than carving a chunk out of an existing state with fully-established borders after the fact.

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      No doubt it’s a bit different. But it was still splitting and both did have established western boundaries.