With Bulgaria joining the Central Powers in October 1915 assuring the defeat of Serbia by the end of November, the Balkanzug — the Balkan Railway, shown in red — connected Berlin and Constantinople. By the second week of November, Turkey received ammunition and weapons from its allies.
Vierbund-TreubundQuadruple Alliance-True AllianceReverse:Message dated February 28, 1916, and postmarked the next day.Logo: ErikaNr. 5448
"Wednesday, September 20, 1916Hindenburg's plan is taking shape and in course of realization on the whole of the circular Rumanian front. Along the Danube and in the Dobrudja the region of Orsova and the defiles of the Carpathians, the German, Austrian, Bulgarian and Turkish forces are exercising sustained and converging pressure, under which the Rumanians are giving way at all points."
Entry from the memoirs of Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia, for Saturday, September 20, 1916. A combined German and Austrian army under German General Erich von Falkenhayn, and a German, Bulgarian, and Turkish army under German General August von Mackensen attacked Romania, the former in Transylvania, Austria-Hungary, and the latter in from the south in Dobrudja, a region between the Danube River and the Black Sea. The Carpathian Mountains formed a significant natural barrier between Austria-Hungary and Romania.
An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. III by Maurice Paléologue, page 32, publisher: George H. Doran Company
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