Index no. 0048

Die Bulgaren / The Bulgarians / Les Bulgares / Българитҍ

in their historical, ethnographical and political frontiers

1917

Published in Berlin by William Greve

Scanning and other details about this work.

In the first Balkan War of 1912-13, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece attacked the Ottoman Empire and seized most of its European territories. However they fell out over dividing the spoils, leading to the second Balkan War of 1913, in which Bulgaria lost much of its recently-gained territory, and more, to Serbia, Romania, Greece, and Turkey. In 1914, the First World War broke out. Bulgaria was once more at war, this time allied with Turkey, Austria-Hungary and Germany, and fighting against Serbia and Montenegro.

This work was published in Germany, in 1917. Although it appears to be a scholarly work on the history and ethnography of Bulgaria and neighbouring regions, it is not surprising to see that it favours Germany's ally Bulgaria, and is critical of Germany's enemy Serbia.

Of most interest are the ethnographic maps, plates 15-30, which are all copied from different works. The sources copied are British, Bulgarian, Czech, French, German, Russian and Serbian. As might be expected, they differ in the ethnographical data presented, particularly in the region of Macedonia.

Below each plate, I reproduce as text the English text which accompanies the map on its facing page. I have not preferred the English because it is the original; it is clearly not, it is imperfectly translated from German, as seen from the text for plate 20. I have preferred the English only because I can type it much more easily than the other languages. Scholars are encouraged to refer to the original texts, which are provided as scans.

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