Turkey–Soviet Union border

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The Turkey–Soviet Union border was a strategically critical frontier between NATO and the Eastern Bloc, symbolizing a key geopolitical fault line throughout the Cold War.

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Label Occurrences
Turkey–Soviet Union border canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cold War border ⓘ
former international border ⓘ
international border ⓘ
abolishedAsSuchInYear 1991 ⓘ
adjacentMountainRange Lesser Caucasus ⓘ
adjacentSeaOrRiver Aras River ⓘ
borderLengthApproxKm 560 ⓘ
borderRegion Adjara ⓘ
Ardahan ⓘ
Artvin ⓘ
linked to: Artvin Province

Javakheti ⓘ
linked to: Samtskhe-Javakheti

Kars ⓘ
Nakhchivan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ⓘ
characterizedAs heavily militarized ⓘ
strategically important ⓘ
country1 Republic of Turkey ⓘ
linked to: Turkey
country2 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ⓘ
linked to: Soviet Union
demarcatedInDecade 1920s ⓘ
establishedByTreaty Treaty of Kars ⓘ
Treaty of Moscow (1921) ⓘ
establishedInYear 1921 ⓘ
geopoliticalRole frontier between NATO and Eastern Bloc ⓘ
key Cold War fault line ⓘ
governedByAgreement Soviet–Turkish border protocols ⓘ
linked to: Treaty of Kars
hadBorderCrossing Alican border crossing ⓘ
Doğu Kapı border crossing ⓘ
Sarp border crossing ⓘ
hasSectionWithSuccessorState Armenia ⓘ
Azerbaijan ⓘ
Georgia ⓘ
historicalPredecessor Ottoman Empire–Russian Empire border ⓘ
locatedIn South Caucasus ⓘ
Transcaucasia ⓘ
linked to: South Caucasus
locatedOnContinent Asia ⓘ
Europe ⓘ
partOf NATO–Warsaw Pact frontier ⓘ
securityRegime fortified ⓘ
strictly controlled ⓘ
separated Eastern Bloc ⓘ
NATO ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ
Turkey ⓘ
succeededBy Turkey–Armenia border ⓘ
Turkey–Azerbaijan border ⓘ
Turkey–Georgia border ⓘ
Turkey–Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic border ⓘ
timePeriod Cold War ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

NATO external border during Cold War → includesSection → Turkey–Soviet Union border ⓘ