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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by D. W. Iddings 



THE ACROPOUS FROM THE TEMPLE OF ZEUS: ATHENS 



Tremendous impetus has been given to the Greater Greece movement by the territory 

 allotted to the Kingdom of the Hellenes through the paring of Turkish domains in Europe. 

 Before the overthrow of Premier Venizelos, the Allied Powers were even reported to view 

 with favor the suggestion that the administration of Constantinople itself be entrusted to the 

 Athens Government. 



profited by the three partitions, the last 

 of which took place a century and a quar- 

 ter ago. From Germany the Allied and 

 Associated Powers took parts of Posen, 

 West Prussia, East Prussia, and Silesia; 

 from Austria-Hungary most of Galicia 

 and a part of the crownland of Buko- 

 wina, and from Russia all of Russian 

 Poland. 

 The eastern boundary of the new Po- 



land was not definitely fixed by the Allies 

 because of chaotic conditions in Russia — 

 conditions which precluded any possi- 

 bility of a definitive boundary treaty be- 

 ing negotiated. The friends of Poland 

 in 1919 did, however, draw a line to the 

 east up to which Polish civil administra- 

 tion was approved (see map). By this 

 boundary the new Poland holds sway 

 over an area of 100,000 square miles. 



