Walk crisis

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Walk Crisis
Part of Estonian War of Independence and Latvian War of Independence
Map of Walk County, 1904
Date 1918 – 1920 Location Walk (now Valga, Estonia and Valka, Latvia), Runö (now Ruhnu) Result Inconclusive Territorial changes Estonians take Ruhnu, Walk divided between the two countries following third-party arbitration by Colonel Stephen George Tallents
Belligerents
Estonia	Latvia
Commanders and leaders
Jaan Tõnisson Otto August Strandman Konstantin Päts Johan Laidoner Nikolai Reek Julius Jürgenson	Kārlis Ulmanis Jānis Balodis Aleksandrs Plensners

The Walk Crisis (also called the Valga Crisis or the Valka Crisis, after the Estonian and Latvian names of the town, respectively) was an episode in Estonia–Latvia relations over the territorial dispute along the border between the two countries, chiefly about the town of Walk (now Valga, Estonia and Valka, Latvia) and the island of Runö (now Ruhnu, Estonia). The territorial dispute lasted from 1918 when both countries declared independence, until its settlement in a border treaty in October 1920.