. Battlefields of the World War, western and southern fronts; a study in military geography . IK Fig. 152—Generalized sketch map of the Battlefield of the Balkans. Cross-ruled areas represent mountainous country, white areas the principal basins andvalley trenches. See also the maps of the barriers and trenches (Fig. 151), of theSaloniki region (Fig. 159I, of northwestern Serbia (Fig. 160), and of the Moglenitsaregion (Fig. 1051. to south, connecting Belgrade with Saloniki. The Morava-Yardar depression does not lead to the land bridge unitingEurope with Asia Minor, but it does serve as a most
. Battlefields of the World War, western and southern fronts; a study in military geography . IK Fig. 152—Generalized sketch map of the Battlefield of the Balkans. Cross-ruled areas represent mountainous country, white areas the principal basins andvalley trenches. See also the maps of the barriers and trenches (Fig. 151), of theSaloniki region (Fig. 159I, of northwestern Serbia (Fig. 160), and of the Moglenitsaregion (Fig. 1051. to south, connecting Belgrade with Saloniki. The Morava-Yardar depression does not lead to the land bridge unitingEurope with Asia Minor, but it does serve as a most important 578 BATTLEFIELD OF THE BALKANS. STRATEGIC POSITION 579 outlet channel from the plains of Hungary to the MediterraneanSea, and is one of the shortest routes from Central Europe tothe Suez Canal. From southern Germany and the easternAlps, the Carpathian foothills and the Alps of Transylvania, andfrom all of the great Hungarian basin, the valley routes leadstraight to Belgrade, whence the Morava-Vardar valley cleavesa way through the mountains to the open waters beyond. It is not without reason that the Morava-Vardar corridorhas been called the key to the history of the Balkan it ebbed and flowed the tides of repeated invasionsfrom the dawn of history. Under Roman dominion most ofit was occupied by an important military road. Through itthe Ostrogoths entered northern Greece in the fifth centuryof our era, while names still found on the map of Greece bearwitness to the great Slav flood which, two centuries later, flowedthrough the corridor and overwhelmed the Greek story of the Serb race
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