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A map of the Russian-Turkish front from Der Weltkrieg 1914-1918, a 1930s German history of the war illustrated with hand-pasted cigarette cards, showing the Turkish Empire in Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas and the Persian Gulf. To the west is Egypt, a British dominion; to the east Persia. Erzerum in Turkey and Kars in Russia were the great fortresses on the frontier.
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Mittelmeer: Mediterranean Sea
Schwarzes M: Black Sea
Kasp. M.: Caspian Sea
Kleinasien: Asia Minor
Türkei: Turkey
Russland: Russia
Mesopot.: Mesopotamia
Persien: Persia
Agypten: Egypt
Kairo: Cairo
Stellungen der: Positions of the
Türken Jan. 1915. . .August 1916
Russen Mai 1915 . . . Frühjahr 1916
Engländer: November 1914 . . . Ende 1917
Herbst 1918
Positions of the
Turks Jan. 1915 . . . August 1916
Russians May 1915 . . . spring 1916
English: November 1914 . . . the end of 1917
autumn 1918

A map of the Russian-Turkish front from Der Weltkrieg 1914-1918, a 1930s German history of the war illustrated with hand-pasted cigarette cards, showing the Turkish Empire in Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas and the Persian Gulf. To the west is Egypt, a British dominion; to the east Persia. Erzerum in Turkey and Kars in Russia were the great fortresses on the frontier.

Image text

Mittelmeer: Mediterranean Sea

Schwarzes M: Black Sea

Kasp. M.: Caspian Sea

Kleinasien: Asia Minor

Türkei: Turkey

Russland: Russia

Mesopot.: Mesopotamia

Persien: Persia

Agypten: Egypt

Kairo: Cairo

Stellungen der: Positions of the

Türken Jan. 1915. . .August 1916

Russen Mai 1915 . . . Frühjahr 1916

Engländer: November 1914 . . . Ende 1917

Herbst 1918

Positions of the

Turks Jan. 1915 . . . August 1916

Russians May 1915 . . . spring 1916

English: November 1914 . . . the end of 1917

autumn 1918

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Sources

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