Description
This poster is a historical map of Europe made by G.W. Bacon around 1920. The map shows the geo-political situation after the First World War. The political and territorial changes brought about by the war included the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, the overthrow of the Tsarist government in Russia, the creation or re-establishment of the independent states of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the transfer of Alsace-Lorraine from Germany to France, and the expansion of Italian territory to include the region around Trieste. We also sell matching frames in different colors.