A buffer between Germany and West Europe where no troops were allowed.
A region between Germany and France that was demilitarized after World War I as a buffer zone to prevent another German invasion.
A region along the Rhine River in western Germany. It includes noted vineyards and highly industrial sections north of Bonn and Cologne. The Rhineland is the boundary between France and Germany.
Demilitarized zone that Allies established after WW I as a buffer between Germany and western Europe.
Valuable industrial region of Germany around the River Rhine. Occupied by Allied troops at the end of the First World War (until 1930). Articles 42-44 of the Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919) forbade Germany from stationing any military formations there.
The Rhineland (Rheinland in German) is the general name for the land on both sides of the river Rhine in the west of Germany. After the collapse of the French Empire in the early 1800s, the German-speaking regions at the middle and lower course of the Rhine river were annexed to the kingdom of Prussia. The Prussian administration reorganised the territory as the Rhine Province (also known as Rhenish Prussia), a term continuing in the names of the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia.