Description: This is a map of the Balkan States during World War I. World War I started in the Balkans, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1914. The solid red line is the battle line on Oct. 20th, 1918. Source: , The Victory Atlas of the War (New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918) 14 Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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