Balkan Collection (page 4)

First Balkan War - result of Montenegrin bombardment
The First Balkan War 1912-13 - Effects on the Turkish Ottoman positions at Sutari following bombardment by Montenegrin artillery of the Balkan League

Ottoman light cruiser Hamidiye
The Ottoman light cruiser Hamidiye, launched 1903, served during the Balkan Wars and the First World War. Date: 1911

Austrian troops marching through Medice, Bosnia, WW1
Austro-Hungarian troops marching through Medice, Bosnia, on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1915-1917

Mountain guides and bearers, Montenegro, WW1
Mountain guides and bearers on the eastern front in Montenegro during the First World War. Date: 1915-1917

Shelled village on Balkan Front, WW1
A shelled village on the Balkan Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Thessaloniki, Greece - The Harbour - Balkan War
Thessaloniki, Greece - The Harbour - At the time of the Balkan War (1914-1915). Date: 1915

German troops at Krusevac, Serbia, WW1
German troops with catering vehicles in front of a supply depot at Krusevac, Serbia, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

A Balkan mountain brigand, rifle in hand, sword in holster, uses his vantage point to search for unsuspecting victims. 1779

Field Marshal Putnik, Serbian army officer
Field Marshal Radomir Putnik, also known as Vojvoda Putnik (1847-1917), Serbian army officer and Chief of General Staff. He served in the Balkan Wars (from 1876 onwards) and the First World War

Olivia Manning (1908 - 1980)
Olivia Manning, British novelist and poet, pictured at her home in St Johns Wood, north London, which she shared with her husband R.D. Reggie Smith

King Peter I of Serbia in retreat following invasion, WW1
King Peter I of Serbia (1844-1921, reigned 1903-1921), seen here (seated, left) in retreat after the invasion of his country by the joint forces of Germany

French and Serbian allies at Salonika, Greece, WW1
French and Serbian allies at Salonika (Thessaloniki), Greece, during the First World War. Vojvoda (Field Marshal) Petar Bojovic (1858-1945) of the Serbian Army is on the left

Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) under Italian occupation
A street in Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) with flags draped on the buildings, and portraits of the King, Gabriele D Annunzio and two generals, under Italian nationalist occupation. Date: 1919

Balkan War 1912 - Lesbos (Metelin) returns to Greek control amid scenes of great celebration

Croatia - Opatija (Abbazia) - Clinic of Dr. Kalman Szego

Croatia - Opatija (Abbazia) - Harbour
The Boat harbour at Opatija (Abbazia), Croatia

Croatia - Opatija (Abbazia) - High view
Panorama of Opatija (Abbazia) and the Istrian Coast - now a popular tourist destination and heavily developed - view from the North

Croatia - Opatija (Abbazia) - New Swimming Baths
Croatia - Opatija (Abbazia) - North Strand and the new Swimming Baths

Croatia - Traditional National Costume (8 / 8)
Croatia - Traditional National Costume (8/8) - Women shopping at a fruit market

Croatia - Traditional National Costume (7 / 8)
Croatia - Traditional National Costume (7/8) - country woman carrying some chickens

Croatia - Traditional National Costume (6 / 8)
Croatia - Traditional National Costume (6/8) - young man standing on the beach smoking a cigarette. He is holding a furled blue umbrella and wears a red jerkin adorned with silver coins or medallions

Croatia - Traditional National Costume (4 / 8)
Croatia - Traditional National Costume (4/8) - young man standing in the sand dunes

Croatia - Traditional National Costume (3 / 8)
Croatia - Traditional National Costume (3/8) - two women with embroidered white headscarves chatting by a wall facing the coast

Croatia - Traditional National Costume (2 / 8)
Croatia - Traditional National Costume (2/8) - Young man on the quayside with a decorative outfit with large wide leather belt

Mosque - Balkan Exhibition - Earls Court
June 1905 - The Balkan Exhibition at Earls Court, London. A Mosque constructed in the Balkan Village, standing alongside an eastern orthodox Christian church

Veiled Turkish Woman and child - Sarajevo

Macedonian Woman spinning
A Macedonian woman spinning wool in her cottage

Bosnia - Summer evening music
Musician playing to two Turkish women in Bosnia on a summers evening

Three Mevlevi Dervishes outside ancient buildings
Balkans - Three Mevlevi Dervishes outside ancient buildings. Elaborate decorative doors. The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia)

Sultan Mehmed V Reshad of Turkey & Balkan leaders
A joyous rustic celebration and an erupting volcano (!) are depicted below the leaders of various Balkan States along with Sultan Mehmed V Reshad of Turkey (1844 - 1918)

Custom House, Tripoli, during Italo-Turkish War
The Custom House, Tripoli, during the Italo-Turkish War (1911-12). The Italian flag is now flying in place of the Turkish flag

Bombardment of Tripoli
The bombardment of Tripoli during the Italo-Turkish War (1911-12) -- scene at the Fortress Sultana. The threatened outbreak of the First Balkan War forced Turkey to make peace

Italian army aviators during Italo-Turkish War
Italian army aviators during the Italo-Turkish War (1911-12) -- the first use of aeroplanes in warfare. Captain Piazzi sits in his monoplane

House destroyed by bombing - Shkoder, Albania
House destroyed by bombing at Shkoder, Albania during the Balkan Wars

Mules being led from Santi Quaranta to Ioannina
Mules being led from Santi Quaranta (now in Southern Albania) to Ioannina (Jannina) on the shore of Lake Ioannina. Both towns were in Ottoman Turkish hands in 1906

Serbian Hemp workers
Rural Serbian Hemp workers

1st Balkan War - unexploded shell
Macedonia - a Turkish Notable (Dignitary) in his garden looking at a Bulgarian shell which had not exploded. The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913

An Allied radiographer on the Balkan front receiving message
A photograph of a group of Allied soldiers outside a dug-out on the Balkan front in October 1916. At a makeshift table is a radiographer receiving messages from allied aircraft

Column of Russian soldiers marching to the Balkan front
A large number of Russian infantry, equipped with only recently introduced steel helmets, are shown marching towards the Balkan front

Russian soldieres at Salonika marching to the Balkan front
Russian soldiers, recently arrived in the Allied encampment at the Greek port of Salonika, are shown marching towards the Balkan front

A French heavy-gun battery on the Macedonian border A French heavy-gun battery is pictured moving uphill through lines of barbed wire on the Balkan front, October 1916

Premier of Bulgaria 1915
Photographic portrait of Dr. V. Radoslavoff, premier of Bulgaria in 1915. Bulgaria entered the war on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary in the hope of regaining part of Macedonia

Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
A photographic portrait of Ferdinand I, King of Bulgaria (1861-1948), often known as Foxy Ferdinand, or the Balkan Fox. Bulgaria entered World War I in 1915 on the side of the Central Alliance

Lule-Burgas Retreat
Turkish forces retreat after losing the battle of Lule- Burgas to Bulgarian troops. Date: 1 November 1912

Jacket / Balkan Spy
BALKAN SPY By Don Betteridge

Yanitza Leads Rebels / Alb
Twenty-two year old Yanitza leads the Albanian patriots in a revolt against Turkish rule Date: 1911

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