WWI · SITE OF MEMORY · 1912–13

Kilkis and the civilians (1912–13)

1912–13 — Civilians across the Balkan Wars suffer at the hands of every army: villages are burned and people driven out for having the “wrong” faith or language. Kilkis is burned in July 1913. A Carnegie Endowment commission documents the crimes in 1914. Hundreds of thousands become refugees, Muslims above all. Remember them.

When: 1912–13
Type: Site of memory
Chapter: Bosnian crisis and the Balkan Wars (chapter 2 of WWI)
Atlas: The Great War, 1871–1923

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Map showing Kilkis and the civilians (1912–13), site of memory in The Great War, 1871–1923 — SITE OF MEMORY · THE GREAT WAR, 1871–1923

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · Anglo-Russian Convention, 31 August 1907, articles I–II

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Source polygons retained with original identities; geographic selections and corrections by Maps of History.. CC BY 4.0
Made with Natural Earth; geographic reference and physical land only. No modern political boundary is used as a historical boundary.. Public domain
US Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States; convention’s named places define the two concession spheres.. Historical treaty facts, independently reconstructed

Annual source features can describe claims, legal territory or military control. Occupied extensions are separated from the prewar Central Power homelands, while the original source names and shapes remain available.

The displayed state is iss 1913. Geographic reference dates and reconstruction methods are recorded for each feature.

reconstruction: 1871–1918 · reconstruction: 31 August 1907 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1864–1921 · vector: 1871–1914 · vector: 1871–1916 · vector: 1873–1914 · vector: 1890–1914 · vector: 1895–1917 · vector: 1898–1914 · vector: 1900–1918 · vector: 1905–1914 · vector: 1905–1915 · vector: 1905–1921 · vector: 1908–1935 · vector: 1911–1913 · vector: 1912–1913 · vector: 1912–1914 · vector: 1912–1915 · vector: 1912–1919 · vector: 1912–1921 · vector: 1912–1955 · vector: 1913–1913 · vector: 1913–1914 · vector: 1913–1915

Layer records and reconstruction methods