THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1945–1949

American zone

Germany west of the Oder–Neisse line after the surrender of May 1945, divided into American, British, French and Soviet zones under the Allied Control Council. The western zones became the Federal Republic in May 1949 and the Soviet zone the German Democratic Republic in October 1949.

Berlin, under four-power rule, lay inside the Soviet zone, and Bremen was an American enclave within the British zone. The Saar was split from the French zone in 1947.

See American zone on the map in 1945

On the map
1945–1949
Capital
Berlin (Allied Control Council)

Rulers named in the sources

Western and central European states, 430–1956

States of western and central Europe: the Irish kingdoms of Meath, Osraige, Breifne, Thomond, Desmond and Tyrconnell, Pictish Fortriu, the Welsh kingdoms of Dyfed, Ceredigion and Deheubarth, Elmet, the taifas of Málaga, Majorca and Menorca, the prince-bishoprics of Liège and Utrecht, Guelders, Brabant, Namur, Limburg, Luxembourg, Cleves and Jülich, Bar and Provence, the Electoral Palatinate, Mainz, Hesse, the Welf principalities, Württemberg, Baden, Ansbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Meissen, Saxe-Wittenberg, Saxe-Lauenburg, Oldenburg and Pomerania, the Visconti, Gonzaga, Este, Montefeltro and Appiani states, Siena, Lucca and Gaeta, and in the 20th century the four occupation zones of Germany, the Saar Protectorate and the Free Territory of Trieste.

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