Postwar postcard map of the Balkans including Albania, newly-created Yugoslavia, expanded Romania, and diminished former Central Powers Bulgaria and Turkey. The first acquisitions of Greece in its war against Turkey are seen in Europe where it advanced almost to Constantinople, in the Aegean Islands from Samos to Rhodes, and on the Turkish mainland from its base in Smyrna. The Greco-Turkish war was fought from May 1919 to 1922. The positions shown held from the war's beginning to the summer of 1920 when Greece advanced eastward. Newly independent Hungary and Ukraine appear in the northwest and northeast.
Péninsule des BalkansÉchelle 1:12.000.000Petit Atlas de Poche Universel25 Édition Jeheber GenèveReverse:No. 20 Édition Jeheber, Genève (Suisse)BalkansRoumanie(Royaume.)Superficie . . . 290 000 sq. km.Population . . . 16 000 000 hab. (50 par sq. km.Capitale: Bucarest . . . 338 000 hab.Bulgarie(Royaume.)Superficie . . . 100 000 sq. km.Population . . . 4 000 000 hab. (40 par sq. km.)Capitale: Sofia . . . 103 000 hab.Grèce(Royaume. Capitale: Athènes.)En Europe (y compris la Crète et les iles) 200 000 sq. km. 6 000 000 hab. 30 p. sq. km.En Asie mineure . . . 30 000 sq. km 1 300 000 hab. 43 p. sq. km.Total 230 000 sq. km. 7 300 000 hab. 32 p. sq. km.Ville de plus de 50 000 habitants:Smyrne (Asie) . . . 350 000 hab.Athènes . . . 175 000 hab.Salonique . . . 150 000Andrinople . . . 70 000 hab.Pirée . . . 70 000 hab.Turquie d'Europe(Empire Ottoman.)Superficie . . . 2 000 sq. km.Population . . . 1 100 000 550 par sq. km.Capitale: Constantinople 1 000 000 hab.AlbanieSuperficie . . . 30 000 sq. km.Population . . . 800 000 hab. (27 par sq. km.)Villes: Scutari . . . 30 000 hab.Durazzo . . . 5 000 hab.YougoslavieVoir le tableau des statisques de ce pays, ainsi que la carte de la partie occidentale de la Yougoslavie, sur la carte d'Italie.Inst. Géog. Kummerly & Frey, Berne.Balkan PeninsulaScale 1: 12,000,000Little Univeral Pocket AtlasRoyaume - KingdomSuperficie - AreaEn Europe (y compris la Crète et les iles) - In Europe (including Crete and the islands)En Asie mineure - In Asia MinorYugoslaviaSee the table of statistics of this country, as well as the map of the western part of Yugoslavia, on the map of Italy.
". . . the French gendarmerie took over the railway installations, all postal and telegraph services and established a censorship of the newspapers published in Salonika. Milne, unwilling to advertise his disapproval of Sarrail's actions, put units of the British military police under the command of the French gendarmerie.Salonika thus became an occupied city, as effectively under alien military administration as Brussels or Warsaw or Belgrade; and, not unnaturally, there were demonstrations against the Entente Powers in Athens. But the French had not yet finished chastening the Greeks for the Rupel incident. A blockade was imposed on all the Greek ports, and a squadron of Allied warships, under a French admiral and with one of Sarrail's brigades aboard, sailed from Salonika from the Cyclades to put pressure on the government in Athens. The French and British demanded demobilization of the Greek Army, new elections, the replacement of the allegedly pro-German Government of Skouloudis by a 'neutral' ministry and the dismissal of police officials who had tolerated insults to the Allied diplomatic representatives. With battleships and cruisers anchored in the bay of Melos and thus able to appear off Athens at eight hours' notice, the Greeks gave in."
In 'the Rupel incident', the garrison of Fort Rupel near the Bulgarian border in northeast Greece surrendered the fort, on orders of the Greek Government, to a German-Bulgarian force. The loss of this defensive barrier in ostensibly neutral Greece threatened the Allied troops in Salonica, and made blatant the pro-German position the Greek Government. On June 2, 1916, the Russian Foreign Minister told the French Ambassador to telegraph Paris that the French and British, Russia's Entente Allies, should take whatever means they considered necessary to deal with the Greeks. Brussels, Belgium had been occupied by German forces in the first days of the war, and Warsaw in the advance into Russia in 1915. Austro-Hungarian troops took Belgrade, capital of Serbia, on October 9, 1915. French General Maurice Sarrail commanded Allied forces in Greece; Lt. General George Milne was the commander of British forces. Athens was, and remains, the capital of Greece.
The Gardeners of Salonika by Alan Palmer, pp. 68, 69, copyright © 1965 by A. W. Palmer, publisher: Simon and Schuster, publication date: 1965
1916-06-03, 1916, June, Greece, neutral, Salonica, Salonika, Sarrail
