“The Russian Menace”:“The Russian menace: a Serio-Comic War Map for the Year 1877.” An English cartoon from 1877 showing Russia as a monstrous octopus devouring neighbouring lands, especially the Ottoman Em
This lavishly illustrated catalog of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750, explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical ideas and theories with the information collected and brought back by travelers and voyagers....
1914 - The French Empire 1914 - Warring powers in Europe 1914 - The Schlieffen Plan 1914 - The Western Front, August 1914 1914 - The Western Front, 'race to the sea' 1914 1914 - The Eastern Front 1915 - The Dardanelles campaign 1870 - The latest War Map of Europe 1915 -...
Montenegro is a sovereign state in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south-east. Its capital and largest...
the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. A Cossack republic emerged and prospered during the 17th and 18th centuries, but its territory was eventually split between Poland and the Russian Empire, and later submerged fully into Russia. Two brief periods of independence occurred during the 20...
What country is #2 on the map? Austria-Hungary Italy France Germany 3. Multiple Choice 45 sec 1 pt What country is #3 on the map? Russia Ottoman Empire Germany Great Britain 4. Multiple Choice 45 sec 1 pt What country is #4 on the map? Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Russia Greece ...
The map above reveals a rather shocking aspect of the First World War. While most people in Western Europe and North America focus on the trench warfare in Northern France and Belgium, it shows that Western European countries were nowhere close to suffering the worst casualty rates in the war...
Maps of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Map collection of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Detailed road, administrative, physical and topographical maps of Bosnia and Herzegovina. All cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the maps.
Modern Romania emerged within the territories of the ancient Roman province of Dacia, and was formed in 1859 through a personal union of the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. ...
Travelers from Australia and New Zealand have joined dignitaries at the former World War I battlefields of Gallipoli in northwest Turkey for a dawn service to honor soldiers who were killed during an unsuccessful British-led campaign that aimed to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war. Associated...