WW II BALKAN CAMPAIGN & TERRITORIAL DIVISIONS and a modern map

 

 

* Demarcation of the defensive Metaxas, Aliakmon and Tempi Lines

" Movements of the German Forces in the Balkan Campaign

, Italian zone (occupied by Germany after Italy surrendered in September 1943

: German zone

. Bulgarian zone

; Occupied by Bulgarians, July 1943 

 

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I.C.B.Dear, R.Clogg and M.Wheeler, Oxford Companion to the Second World War (1995), pp.105, 506, 1296

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