(1) I didn't know (or else didn't remember) that Alsace had a Soviet. So did Bavaria under Kurt Eisner (7 Nov. 1918), so maybe you'd like to add the Bavarian Soviet Republic. There might have been a fleeting Baden Soviet or reversion to the Kingdom of Baden or Baden-Wuerttemberg in 1918-19, but I'd have to look that up. [One of my historical atlases, by Kinder & Hilgermann, shows a workers' or soldiers' council taking over Stuttgart on 9 November 1918.]
(2) After 1943, wouldn't Switzerland have bordered the Italian Social Republic [RSI or Repubblica Sociale Italiana (Mussolini's Salò Republic after Otto Skorzeny had spirited il Duce away from the Allies)? Not perhaps in the eyes of the Allies or the Kingdom of Italy, but in those of the Axis and also in reality. Presumably the neutral but careful Swiss would have tried to have diplomatic relations with both Italies, but I don't know.
(3) Please accept Savoy for Sardinia before 1861. I think that was her formal name (or at least a very commonly-accepted one), and it was ruled by the House of Savoy.
(4) Since you try to be extra-careful about the political status of a country's neighbours, perhaps either West Germany from 1949 to unification, or else finesse the issue by calling it the Federal Republic of Germany, the title of both West Germany and reunified Germany after 1949. I don't know if you'd want to use French Zone of Occupation (or Ally-Occupied Germany) for 1945-49.
(5) The status of Germany between 1918 and 1938 is tricky. Juridically, it was still Deutsches Reich (or that's what English-language Wikipedia tells me), but politically it was the (Weimar) German Republic until 1933. Constitutionally, the Nazis didn't actually dismantle the Weimar Republic's institutions after 1933, although it's fair (in my opinion) to use Grossdeutsches Reich (Greater Germany) after the incorporation of Austria (Anschluss) in 1938, since Switzerland was no longer bordering Austria. |
Cantons of Switzerland
European Borders
European Border Bash with Booby Traps
