Rumania, Bulgaria And Constantinople

Description

This map shows how borders were redrawn in Europe and the Ottoman geography following the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. The 1919 Paris Peace Conference was a summit that redefined international borders after World War I and where the victorious states reshaped the world. Reflecting the draft borders in the preparation stages of the Treaty of Sevres (1920), the map shows the redrawn borders of the Ottoman Empire around Thrace and Istanbul, the new status quo between Bulgaria, Romania and Ottoman lands, and the neutralization of Istanbul and the Bosphorus area under the supervision of the League of Nations. In the legend (explanation box) in the lower right corner of the map, four important types of lines are defined; Red solid and short dashed line (new international borders determined by the victorious states after World War I), Red black dotted dashed line (temporary borders in disputed areas that are still under negotiation), Black short dashed line (former borders of the former Ottoman and Balkan states that lost their validity in the 1919 peace talks), Colored box (blue-green lines on a yellow background) (borders of neutral areas under the control of the League of Nations - especially internationally important areas such as the surroundings of Istanbul and the Straits). The phrase "Claimed of Greece" on Thrace on the map was used to indicate Greece's claims on Ottoman lands after the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. At the conference, the Greek representative Eleftherios Venizelos demanded various regions from the Ottomans, including Izmir, Thrace and even Istanbul. At the end of the conference, the temporary administration of Izmir was left to Greece (Greek soldiers landed in Izmir on May 15, 1919).