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[Mark Kohut]

Treaty of Berlin (1878) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Treaty of Berlin was the final act of the Congress of Berlin (June 13 – July 13, 1878), by which the United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy ...
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An extension of an earlier treaty of the same year, many historians, led perhaps by the famous A.J.P Taylor[wiki-sourced] believed it honored the self-determined
nations and would have allowed them to remain as self-defined had it been honored;  A key Pynchon theme (and belief) in AtD it seems.
 
It also introduced the conjoined protection of the rights of minorities modelled later by The League of Nations....
The writer who wants those who are not even on any map to be respected must surely have gone here for this and other reasons in AtD..... 
 
Wikipedia: The Minority Treaties, recognized as history's first minority treaties,[20] were an important step in protection of minorities and recognition of human rights, bringing the subject to an international forum. In them, for the first time, states and international communities recognized that there are people living outside normal legal protection and who required an additional guarantee of their elementary rights from an external body, as protection within individual states itself may not be sufficient.[10][20]
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