The Great War, 1871–1923 · THE MAP IN JUL 1878

Map of Europe in July 1878

The Congress of Berlin · before WWI

Europe in July 1878: The Congress of Berlin. Since May 1871, 1 territory changed status on this map: Bosnia (Austria-Hungary).

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Map of Europe in July 1878 (before WWI): The Congress of Berlin. Colours show Germany and its allies — the Central Powers, Under Central Powers occupation. — JUL 1878 · THE GREAT WAR, 1871–1923

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography

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

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 nearest published outlines after the event, from 1880, replace the preceding wartime control shown by the 1878 source. This is an explicit date proxy, not an exact monthly partition.

reconstruction: 1871–1885 dated source difference · reconstruction: 1871–1918 · reconstruction: 1880 Ottoman footprint · reconstruction: 1880 versus 1885 Bulgarian footprints · vector: 1803–1889 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1820–1899 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1856–1884 · vector: 1856–1894 · vector: 1859–1884 · vector: 1864–1921 · vector: 1866–1884 · vector: 1870–1884 · vector: 1871–1884 · vector: 1871–1914 · vector: 1871–1916 · vector: 1873–1884 · vector: 1873–1889 · vector: 1873–1914 · vector: 1877–1884 · vector: 1880–1884 · vector: 1880–1889 · vector: 1880–1894 · vector: 1880–1897 · vector: 1880–1899

Layer records and reconstruction methods

What changes on the map

Bosnia (Austria-Hungary)

— → Under Central Powers occupation

On the ground

In the south, Eastern Rumelia was an autonomous Ottoman province until it joined Bulgaria in 1885.
The Sanjak of Novi Pazar remained Ottoman until 1912.

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