Partition

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In political geography, a partition is the division of a country into two or more parts. Partition is increasinglt proposed as a solution to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. For example see Ivan Eland's Partitioning: The Way Out of Iraq

Historical Examples

• Partitions of Poland and Poland-Lithuania in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries
• Partitions of Bengal in 1905 and 1947
• Partition of India (colonial British India) in 1947 into the independent dominions (later republics) of India and Pakistan, the latter later again split by the Bangladesh Liberation War
• 1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine (region)
• Partition of Ireland in 1920 into the independent Irish Free State and (British) Northern Ireland
• Treaty of Kars of 1921, which partitioned Ottoman Armenia between the republic of Turkey and the then Soviet Union (Western and Eastern Armenia)
• Partition of Vietnam in 1954
• Partitions of Luxembourg, last in 1838 into Duchy of Luxembourg and Belgian province