Which additional realistic cases could there have been of a country being more-or-less reduced to its ethnographic borders? In real life, there were:
-Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire all being more-or-less reduced to their ethnographic borders after the end of World War I
-Czechoslovakia being (briefly/temporarily) reduced to its ethnographic borders in late 1938 due to Nazi Germany's, Poland's, and Hungary's actions
-Russia being reduced to its ethnographic borders after the collapse of the Soviet Union. One could, of course, also say something similar about Serbia after Yugoslavia's collapse, though in Serbia's case, there were many more remaining Serbs outside of Serbia as a percentage of the total Serb population in Yugoslavia in comparison to Russia and Russians in the former Soviet Union.
-Ukraine being reduced to its ethnographic borders in 2014 as a result of both Crimea's and the Donbass's secession from Ukraine
There is, of course, another case of this which sort-of qualifies:
-India being reduced to its core Hindu borders as a result of the 1947 partition of India
And also, it's worth noting that had Kurdistan actually become an independent state at the time that ISIS would have risen (or beforehand), then Iraq would have indeed been temporarily reduced to its Shi'a Arab ethnographic borders due to it already temporarily losing most or all of its Sunni Arab-majority territories to the thankfully short-lived and ill-fated ISIS Caliphate.
Anyway, which additional realistic examples of this can you think of, either in real life or in alternate history? Any thoughts on this?
-Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire all being more-or-less reduced to their ethnographic borders after the end of World War I
-Czechoslovakia being (briefly/temporarily) reduced to its ethnographic borders in late 1938 due to Nazi Germany's, Poland's, and Hungary's actions
-Russia being reduced to its ethnographic borders after the collapse of the Soviet Union. One could, of course, also say something similar about Serbia after Yugoslavia's collapse, though in Serbia's case, there were many more remaining Serbs outside of Serbia as a percentage of the total Serb population in Yugoslavia in comparison to Russia and Russians in the former Soviet Union.
-Ukraine being reduced to its ethnographic borders in 2014 as a result of both Crimea's and the Donbass's secession from Ukraine
There is, of course, another case of this which sort-of qualifies:
-India being reduced to its core Hindu borders as a result of the 1947 partition of India
And also, it's worth noting that had Kurdistan actually become an independent state at the time that ISIS would have risen (or beforehand), then Iraq would have indeed been temporarily reduced to its Shi'a Arab ethnographic borders due to it already temporarily losing most or all of its Sunni Arab-majority territories to the thankfully short-lived and ill-fated ISIS Caliphate.
Anyway, which additional realistic examples of this can you think of, either in real life or in alternate history? Any thoughts on this?