THE NEW MAP OF EUROPE 



171 



Subsequent to the 

 delimitation of the 

 civil administration 

 area, the Poles and 

 the Bolsheviks, after a 

 bitter warfare, signed 

 an armistice and estab- 

 lished vaguely what 

 has become known as 

 the <: Polish-Bolshevik 

 Armistice Line of Oc- 

 tober 12, 1920." 



If this latter line 

 approximates the east- 

 ern boundary of Po- 

 land as it is eventually 

 established, the reha- 

 bilitated republic will 

 add an additional 40,- 

 000 square miles to 

 the territory accorded 

 it by the Allies. It 

 will be a nation ex- 

 ceeding by one-third 

 the area of pre-war 

 Italy, and will have 

 a population about 

 equal to that of the 

 Peninsula Kingdom. 

 Poland's chief outlet 

 to the sea is the Free 

 City of Danzig, previ- 

 ously mentioned (see 

 page 160). 



In these estimates 

 the plebiscite area of 

 Eastern Galicia is in- 

 cluded in Poland, in- 

 asmuch as it is to be 

 under Polish adminis- 

 tration for a period of 

 25 years. 



Extending like a 

 gigantic wedge nearly 600 miles long and 

 only 150 miles broad at its widest part, 

 the new Republic of Czechoslovakia 

 stretches from eastern Germany to north- 

 western Rumania — a corridor nation of 

 central Europe (see separate article in 

 this number of The Geographic, pages 

 in to 156). It is composed of three 

 closely related racial elements — the 

 Czechs, the Moravians, and the Slovaks 

 (see map, page 156). 



The Czechs (Bohemians) to the west, 

 girded about by a natural frontier of 



Photograph from Frederick Simpich 



SELLING BREAD IN THE STREETS OF SOFIA, THE CAPITAL OF 

 SHORN BULGARIA 



With a population of 100,000 before the World War, Sofia is the 

 largest city of Bulgaria and is the seat of a university. It occupies 

 the site of the ancient Roman colony of Serdica, founded by the 

 Emperor Trajan, and was a favorite residence of Constantine the 

 Great. 



mountains which separates them from the 

 Germans, are joined to the Slovakians, 

 whose home is to the south of the Carpa- 

 thian Mountains, by the land of the Mo- 

 ravians. Moravia forms a gap through 

 which passes the great central European 

 route between the Adriatic and the Baltic. 

 By development of the waterways of 

 the country and the construction of ca- 

 nals, Czechoslovakia, while without a 

 seacoast, will have access to three seas — 

 to the Black Sea by way of the Danube, 

 to the Baltic by way of the Oder, and to 



