Map #86: Territorial Claims in Central and Eastern Europe Prior to World War I

In 1914, the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires  were on the verge of collapse.

The Contested Balkans: Turkish presence in the Balkansversus Austro-Hungary’s presence in the Balkans Click on “Luna” to see the maps

Gavrilo Princip, the 19-year-old Srb assassin of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sofia., whose actions set the First World War in motion.

The Ottoman military defeat in the First World War.

Locations of some contested territory at the outset of the First World War