DATE: 1870... From the rare Colton's General Atlas printed in 1870. There is an even older copyright date printed right on the map: "Entered accoring to Act of Congress in the Year 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York". This GREAT Map was made and HAND COLORED 138 Years AGO !!! THIS IS NOT A REPRODUCTION.
DESCRIPTION: Medium weight paper, gorgeous decorative border !!
SHEET SIZE: about 14.5" X 17" .
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Map from "A Classical Atlas to Illustrate Ancient Geography" by Alexander G. Findlay, Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, 1849.Macedonia, Thracia, Illyria, Moesia et Dacia [Ancient Balkans]
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From "The Public Schools Historical Atlas" edited by C. Colbeck, published by Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905.
Europe - Crusades Era [includes Balkans]
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Map from "Historical Atlas" by William R. Shepherd, 1923.
Europe about 1560 [includes Balkans]
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Changes in Turkey in Europe 1856 to 1878 (201K)
From "Literary and Historical Atlas of Europe", by J.G. Bartholomew, 1912.
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Eastern Europe 1878 (468K)
Map from "An Historical Atlas" by Robert H. Labberton, E. Elaxton and Co., 1884.
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Contested Regions according to the map annexed to the Treaty of Alliance [1912] (262K)
Map from "Report of the International Commission To Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars" 1914. "The Serbian-Bulgarian treaty of 13 March 1912 made provision for the partition of Macedonia along the following lines: 'all the territory north of the Sar range' was to go to Serbia; 'all the region east of the Rhodope range and the Struma valley' was to go to Bulgaria. Bulgaria hoped the intervening country should form an 'autonomous Macedonia', but, if this should prove impossible, a new line was to be drawn leaving Kumanovo, Skoplje and Debar to Serbia, and giving Kratovo, Veles, Bitolj (Monastir) and Ohrid to Bulgaria. Serbia undertook to make no claim south of the line; Bulgaria reserved the right to claim territory to the north, in which case Russia was to act as arbitrator. The area of overlapping claims was known as the 'Contested Zone'. "--quote from: Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division, Geographical Handbook Series: Jugoslavia, Volume II, 1944, p. 114.
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Balkan Aspirations [showing boundaries of 1912] (153K)
Map from "Report of the International Commission To Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars" 1914. "There was hardly any part of the territory of Turkey in Europe which was not claimed by at least two competitors."--Report of the International Commission To Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1914, p.38.