{"product_id":"balkans-ethnicity-maps-of-the-disagreement-that-led-to-the-first-world-war-1914-p-6-112271","title":"Balkans ethnicity—Maps of the disagreement that led to the First World War 1914","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e[Two maps] Carte ethnographique de la Macédoine: Point de vue bulgare [and] Carte ethnographique de la Macédoine: Point de vue serbe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo maps of Balkans ethnicities that flatly contradict each other — and expose the disagreement that set Europe alight just weeks after publication. Cvijić, mapping for Serbia, assigns the Slav villages of Macedonia to a category of his own invention, Slaves de Macédoine: a people of unsettled nationality, and therefore a people who might be made Serbs. Kănčov colours those identical villages green and calls them Bulgarians. Neither sheet describes Macedonia; each claims it. The Carnegie Endowment printed both maps its Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars to demonstrate that no neutral ground existed between the claimants — and that where population determined title, populations themselves became targets. The massacres, burnings and forced conversions catalogued in that report follow directly from the logic these two sheets embody. The 1913 Treaty of Bucharest settled the argument by force, doubling Serbia and leaving Bulgaria vengeful. It was that enlarged Serbia, a magnet for the South Slavs under Habsburg rule, which convinced Vienna it must defeat Belgrade. Weeks after this report appeared, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand gave it the pretext, igniting the First World War\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53843351404891,"sku":"P-6-112271","price":280.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112271a.jpg?v=1787236342","url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/products\/balkans-ethnicity-maps-of-the-disagreement-that-led-to-the-first-world-war-1914-p-6-112271","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}