Keywords: Cvijic, Jovan - Breisemeister, William A. - Carte ethnographique de la Péninsule balkanique (pd).jpg La dissolution de l'empire austro-hongrois à la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale transforma l'organisation politique des Balkans La guerre avait commencé dans les Balkans avec l'assassinat de l'archiduc François-Ferdinand de Habsbourg par un militant serbe de Bosnie qui voulait l'indépendance de son pays vis à vis du double empire Jovan Cvijic l'auteur de cette carte ethnographique des Balkans publiée en 1918 par la Société géographique américaine de New York était professeur de géographie à l'université de Belgrade Cvijic termina son doctorat à l'université de Vienne dans les années 1890 en formations géologiques et géomorphologie physique mais ses centres d'intérêts se tournèrent plus tard vers la recherche anthropogéographique analysant les influences géographiques sur la dynamique ethnique et culturelle dans la péninsule des Balkans La carte de Cvijic est un témoignage de la diversité ethnique religieuse et nationale des Balkans mais elle donne peu de notion des dommages démographiques que la guerre causa sur la péninsule où l'on estime qu'un quart des populations d'avant-guerre de la Serbie et du Monténégro disparut l'un des plus haut taux de victimes de tous les pays combattants en The dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I transformed the political organization of the Balkans The war had started in the Balkans with the assassination of the Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a militant Bosnian Serb seeking independence for his country from the dual empire Jovan Cvijić the author of this ethnographic map of the Balkans published in 1918 by the American Geographical Society of New York was a professor of geography at the University of Belgrade Cvijić completed his doctorate at the University of Vienna in the 1890s on geological formations and physical geomorphology but his interests later shifted to anthropogeographical research analyzing the geographical influences on ethnic and cultural dynamics in the Balkan Peninsula Cvijić ™s map is a testament to the ethnic religious and national diversity of the Balkans but it provides little sense of the demographic damage that the war wreaked on the peninsula where an estimated one-quarter of the prewar populations of Serbia and Montenegro were killed one of the highest casualty rates of any combatant country http //www wdl org/fr/item/93/ 1918 Cvijic Jovan ; Breisemeister William A PD-old Old maps of the Balkans Maps showing history in French Historical maps of ethnic groups in Albania Historical maps of ethnic groups in Bulgaria Historical maps of ethnic groups in Greece Historical maps of ethnic groups in the Republic of Macedonia Historical maps of ethnic groups in Montenegro Historical maps of ethnic groups in Romania Historical maps of ethnic groups in Transylvania Historical maps of ethnic groups in Serbia Historical maps of ethnic groups in Vojvodina Historical maps of ethnic groups in Turkey Historical maps of ethnic groups in Kosovo Historical maps of ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina Historical maps of ethnic groups in Croatia Historical maps of ethnic groups in Slovenia Maps showing 19th-century history Jovan Cvijić Historical maps of ethnic groups in the Balkans Images from the World Digital Library Images from the Library of Congress |