MAPS OF HISTORY · WWI · MAPS BY YEAR · May 1871The Great War, 1871–1923 · THE MAP IN MAY 1871
Map of Europe in May 1871
A new empire in the middle · before WWI
Europe in May 1871: A new empire in the middle. The map shows who held what: Germany and its allies — the Central Powers.
MAY 1871 · THE GREAT WAR, 1871–1923 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Treaty of Berlin, 1878, articles XXVIII–XXIX · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography
Source details US Department of State, Foreign Relations 1878; Montenegro frontier and coastal transfers.. Historical treaty geographic facts 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.
proxy: 1873 postwar footprint for May 1871 · reconstruction: 1871 Ottoman footprint · reconstruction: 1871–1878 dated source difference · reconstruction: 1871–1882 dated source difference · reconstruction: 1871–1885 dated source difference · reconstruction: 1871–1918 · reconstruction: 1878 Niksic transfer;1885 source regional proxy · reconstruction: 1878–1908 occupation/annexation reference · reconstruction: 1880–1880 dated source difference · reconstruction: 1885 source for 1878–1880 coastal transfers · vector: 1803–1889 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1820–1872 · vector: 1820–1899 · vector: 1840–1872 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1853–1879 · vector: 1856–1884 · vector: 1856–1894 · vector: 1857–1872 · vector: 1857–1876 · vector: 1859–1872 · vector: 1859–1879 · vector: 1859–1884 · vector: 1861–1872 · vector: 1864–1872 · vector: 1864–1921 · vector: 1866–1872 · vector: 1866–1876 · vector: 1866–1884 · vector: 1868–1879 · vector: 1870–1872 · vector: 1870–1879 · vector: 1870–1884 · vector: 1871–1872 · vector: 1871–1879 · vector: 1871–1884 · vector: 1871–1914 · vector: 1871–1916
Layer records and reconstruction methods
On the ground The German Empire annexed Alsace-Lorraine in 1871; it returned to France in 1918. Bulgaria became an autonomous principality in 1878, ending Ottoman rule here; the far south remained Ottoman until 1912. Ottoman rule lasted until 1878, when Austria-Hungary occupied the area. Niš, Pirot and Vranje remained Ottoman until 1878; the Sanjak remained Ottoman until 1912. Montenegro took this Ottoman territory in 1878. Montenegro took this Ottoman territory in 1878–80. Northern Dobruja remained Ottoman until 1878, then became Romanian. Thessaly and Arta remained Ottoman until 1881; the north of today’s Greece and the islands remained Ottoman until 1912–13. The striped area remained under Ottoman rule until the Balkan Wars of 1912–13. Crete and the eastern Aegean islands remained Ottoman until 1912–13. Related maps
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