Limitrophe statesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Before the Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919 and even after it was not clear yet, which territories of Russian Empire, either occupied by German troops or engaged in the Civil War in Russia, may maintain their independencies which they started to proclaim from late 1917. Thus the very composition of the Limitrophe zone was uncertain and varied widely. Arguing that these nations were then "the cards to change hands in big political games", authors name among them the Baltic peoples, Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Byelorussians and so on.