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.

Serbien Kopot, Kapot, Kaput (?)

[Serbian King] Peter bankraft, bankratt (?)

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

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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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Threatened by Austria-Hungary's 1914 invasion of Serbia, the government fled Belgrade for the relative safety of Niš (Nisch).

On December 7, 1914, Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić addressed the Serbian National Assembly, stating that the government '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.' Pašić's brief statement became known as the Niš Declaration, and was reported to representatives of its allies France, Russia, and Great Britain.

Niš was captured by Bulgarian forces striking from the east across the Serbian/Bulgarian border on November 5, 1915 in the conquest of Serbia by combined Central Power forces.

The city remained occupied until October 11,1918, when it was liberated by Serbian troops. French General Louis Franchet d'Esperey commanded Allied forces — French, British, Italian, Greek, and Serbian — on the Balkan Front, where for over two years the Bulgarians had kept the Allied forces bottled up. In the two weeks between the opening of d'Esperey's offensive into Serbia on September 15 and the end of the month, the defenders collapsed, the Bulgarian home front rose up, and a new Bulgarian government signed an armistice on September 30.

Austro-Hungarian General Hermann Kövess von Kövess Háza commanded the forces left occupying Serbia. Faced with the rapid advance of Franchet d'Esperey's army and the surrender of Bulgaria on left flank, he could do little more than retreat to defend Austria-Hungary.

Nisch is a city in Serbia.

Statistics for Nisch (1)

Type	Statistic
Population	24,949