At the end of the First World War, defeated European empires ceded a wealth of imperial patronage, including palaces, government buildings and offices, to newly forming states in central Europe. While we know a great deal about these property transfers, the fate of ceded property in mandates and other newly emerging sovereign spaces, such as international zones, is less well known. This article traces the ways in which central European properties were reallocated and sold in international zones, with special reference to the International Zone of Tangier. While the remains of central European imperialism in Tangier were integrated into the international administration, this process encouraged erstwhile imperial powers to vie ever harder to reclaim ‘their’ former property, including private property portfolios. Meanwhile, it encouraged existing imperial powers to support private property purchases in order to secure advantages in the administration. In other words, internationalization entailed widespread competition for property that is omitted from the usual accounts of these spaces. Drawing attention to this phenomenon is important as it reveals the new forms imperial rivalries took on within the international structures created after the war.

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国际区的财产与帝国的终结，1919 年至 1947 年

第一次世界大战结束时，战败的欧洲帝国将大量的帝国赞助，包括宫殿、政府建筑和办公室，让给了中欧新成立的国家。虽然我们对这些财产转让了解很多，但托管地和其他新兴主权空间（例如国际区）中转让财产的命运却鲜为人知。本文追溯了中欧财产在国际区重新分配和出售的方式，特别提到丹吉尔国际区。虽然丹吉尔的中欧帝国主义残余被纳入国际管理，但这一过程鼓励昔日的帝国主义列强更加努力地争夺“他们的”以前的财产，包括私人财产组合。同时，它鼓励现​​有的帝国列强支持私人财产购买，以确保在管理中的优势。换句话说，国际化带来了对财产的广泛竞争，而这些空间的通常描述中忽略了这一点。引起人们对这一现象的关注很重要，因为它揭示了战后创建的国际结构中帝国竞争的新形式。