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Germany and King Ferdinand of Bulgaria squeeze pincers on Serbia at the city of Nisch. Germany and Austria-Hungary began their joint invasion across Serbia's norther border on October 6, 1915. Bulgaria entered the war on the side of the Central Powers on October 14, and invaded Serbia from the east. Nisch fell to the invaders on November 5. The Serbia capital of Belgrade on the Danube and the city of Monastir on the Greek border are marked with initials. Handmade postcard map dated November 12, 1915. Text: Serbien Kopot, Kapot, Kaput (?) Peter bankraft, bankratt (?) Marked are the Adriatic and Aegean Seas, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bulgaria, neutral Rumania, Hungary. Deliblat. (?) Reverse: Unsern tapferen Truppen im Felde gewidmet von der Tintenfabrik Eduard Beyer, Chemnitz i/s - Teplitz i/s. Dedicated to our courageous forces in the field from the ink factory Edward Beyer, Chemnitz i/s - Teplitz i/s

Germany and King Ferdinand of Bulgaria squeeze pincers on Serbia at the city of Nisch. Germany and Austria-Hungary began their joint invasion across Serbia's norther border on October 6, 1915. Bulgaria entered the war on the side of the Central Powers on October 14, and invaded Serbia from the east. Nisch fell to the invaders on November 5.
The Serbia capital of Belgrade on the Danube and the city of Monastir on the Greek border are marked with initials.
Handmade postcard map dated November 12, 1915.

Image text

Serbien Kopot, Kapot, Kaput (?)

[Serbian King] Peter bankraft, bankratt (?)

Marked are the Adriatic and Aegean Seas, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary.

Deliblat (?)



Reverse:

Unsern tapferen Truppen im Felde gewidmet von der Tintenfabrik Eduard Beyer, Chemnitz i/s - Teplitz i/s.

Dedicated to our courageous forces in the field from the ink factory Edward Beyer, Chemnitz i/s - Teplitz i/s

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Monday, December 7, 1914

"The government is sure that it will retain the trust of the National Assembly as long as it works for great causes, the Serbian state and the Serb-Croat and Slovene peoples. . . . it considers its most important and, at this fateful time, its sole task as being to secure a successful end to that great war which, at the moment of its inception, also became a struggle for the liberation and unification of all our brother Serbs, Croats and Slovenes who are not free."

Quotation Context

Excerpt from a statement by Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić to the Serbian National Assembly convened in Niš (Nisch) on December 7, 1914. The government had fled Belgrade for the relative safety of Niš. The Niš Declaration summarized Serbia's war aims: not only the expansion of Serbia to include areas largely populated by Serbs, but a unified nation of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, the union of south Slavs, that Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Franz Ferdinand, sought.

Source

Serbia's Great War 1914-1918 by Andrej Mitrovic, pp. 95, 96, copyright © Andrej Mitrovic, 2007, publisher: Purdue University Press, publication date: 2007

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1914-12-07, 1914, December, Nisch, Declaration of Nisch, Nisch Declaration, Union of South Slavs, Yugoslavia, Serbia