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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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Monday, January 24, 1916

"The perpetual procrastination of [Prime Minister] Bratiano is placing Rumania in a dangerous position. The Central Powers are certainly beginning to adopt a threatening tone towards her. . . .

'The speedy arrival of a Russian army at the mouth of the Danube would be essential to secure us against attack by the Bulgarians in the Dobrudja,' [said Bratiano]. . . .

Bratiano's private motive is only too plain: he wants to leave Russia the task of holding off the Bulgarians, so that the whole effort of the Rumanian army may be directed against Transylvania, the object of the national ambitions."

Quotation Context

Both the Entente Allies and Central Powers courted neutral Romania, trying to lure the country into the war, each side offering the opportunity of seizing land with large Romanian populations — Transylvania in Austria-Hungary, and Bessarabia in Russia. Romania was more interested in Transylvania, which lay across the Transylvanian Alps. The Danube River formed much of the western and southern border with Bulgaria, a not insurmountable barrier. The river flowed north then east before flowing into the Black Sea, the river and the sea shaping three sides of the Romanian eastern region of Dobrudja, which was exposed to Bulgaria along its southern border. Romania had taken the southern part of the Dobrudja from Bulgaria in the Second Balkan War in 1913.

Source

An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. II by Maurice Paléologue, pp. 154, 155, publisher: George H. Doran Company

Tags

1916-01-24, 1916, January, Romania