Map Series #31 — War Breaks Out in Southern Asia

 

Southern Asia 1914: Outbreak of the Great War

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The mosaic of protectorates, empires, suzerainties, and semi-independencies in Southern Asia when war broke out in 1914 is a glittering array of another continent of battlefields and shifting influences worldwide. The dwindling Ottoman Empire still holds sway in the northwestern region and through much of the Arabian peninsula. European colonial expansion in the 19th century had set up this mixture of extended areas to fight over and occupy during the Great War. 

Source: OmniAtlas