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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. Text: Péninsule des Balkans Échelle 1:12.000.000 Petit Atlas de Poche Universel 25 Édition Jeheber Genève Reverse: No. 20 Édition Jeheber, Genève (Suisse) Balkans Roumanie (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 . . . 150 000 Andrinople . . . 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. Albanie Superficie . . . 30 000 sq. km. Population . . . 800 000 hab. (27 par sq. km.) Villes: Scutari . . . 30 000 hab. Durazzo . . . 5 000 hab. Yougoslavie Voir 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. Kummerl

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.

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Péninsule des Balkans

Échelle 1:12.000.000



Petit Atlas de Poche Universel

25 Édition Jeheber Genève



Reverse:

No. 20 Édition Jeheber, Genève (Suisse)

Balkans



Roumanie

(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 . . . 150 000

Andrinople . . . 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.



Albanie

Superficie . . . 30 000 sq. km.

Population . . . 800 000 hab. (27 par sq. km.)

Villes: Scutari . . . 30 000 hab.

Durazzo . . . 5 000 hab.



Yougoslavie

Voir 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 Peninsula

Scale 1: 12,000,000

Little Univeral Pocket Atlas



Royaume - Kingdom

Superficie - Area



En Europe (y compris la Crète et les iles) - In Europe (including Crete and the islands)

En Asie mineure - In Asia Minor



Yugoslavia

See the table of statistics of this country, as well as the map of the western part of Yugoslavia, on the map of Italy.

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Yugoslavia, the union of South Slavs, was the dream of Gavrilo Princip and his co-conspirators when he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914. It would include the Allied nations of Serbia and Montenegro and, in whole or in part, the Austro-Hungarian regions of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Dalmatia, Slavonia, and Carniola.

Two of President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points addressed the territories that and people who became Yugoslavia: number 10 calling for 'freest opportunity of autonomous development to the peoples of Austria-Hungary' and 11: 'restoration of Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro; free access to the sea accorded to Serbia; international guarantees of the independence and integrity of the several Balkan states.'

Thousands of Slovene, Czech, and Polish delegates met at Laibach (Ljubljana) on August 16, 1918 supporting pan-Slavism and calling for independence.

On October 30, Emperor Karl recognized an independent Yugoslavia of former Austro-Hungarian territory, with the Austro-Hungarian Navy turned over to the new state. In the first days of November, the new state negotiated with Serbia, requesting the Serbian Army maintain order, in part threatened by soldiers returning home from the Italian Front.

Yugoslavia is a country in Europe.