THE SCARS OF WAR, "POLEMOFORMS" OF THE SALONIKA FRONT IN BALKAN LANDSCAPES
During the First World War, a significant part of the fights took place in the Balkans, on a front line running along the borders of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and North Macedonia. They left a lasting footprint on the landscapes, which remains less precisely assessed than on the Western Front. Howeve...
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| description | During the First World War, a significant part of the fights took place in the Balkans, on a front line running along the borders of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and North Macedonia. They left a lasting footprint on the landscapes, which remains less precisely assessed than on the Western Front. However, a century after the end of the war, traces or consequences are still perceptible. Opposing armies left behind many remnants such as fortifications or defensive works, a dense network of trenches, small railways, grounds which were heavily destroyed by artillery fire or even villages totally ruined and sometimes never reoccupied. Identifying these “polemoforms” can find its place in various approaches devoted to the landscape: knowledge of its historical evolution and of the degree of disappearance of the war footprints, characterization of their memorial value, protection of the historical legacy, identification of grounds likely to keep buried ammunition leftovers. This communication will present the contribution of French cartographic and photographic archives dating from the First World War and recent satellite images to identify the traces left by that military conflict and assess their persistence in current landscapes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6eecc9176a104ae695affd3ce6ff1dc12023-02-15T10:02:04ZengGeobalcanica SocietyActa Geobalcanica1857-98332021-08-0181233310.18509/AGB218-1023rTHE SCARS OF WAR, "POLEMOFORMS" OF THE SALONIKA FRONT IN BALKAN LANDSCAPESNicolas Jacob-Rousseau0Université Lumière – Lyon 2 and UMR 5133 Archéorient (CNRS), Lyon, FranceDuring the First World War, a significant part of the fights took place in the Balkans, on a front line running along the borders of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and North Macedonia. They left a lasting footprint on the landscapes, which remains less precisely assessed than on the Western Front. However, a century after the end of the war, traces or consequences are still perceptible. Opposing armies left behind many remnants such as fortifications or defensive works, a dense network of trenches, small railways, grounds which were heavily destroyed by artillery fire or even villages totally ruined and sometimes never reoccupied. Identifying these “polemoforms” can find its place in various approaches devoted to the landscape: knowledge of its historical evolution and of the degree of disappearance of the war footprints, characterization of their memorial value, protection of the historical legacy, identification of grounds likely to keep buried ammunition leftovers. This communication will present the contribution of French cartographic and photographic archives dating from the First World War and recent satellite images to identify the traces left by that military conflict and assess their persistence in current landscapes.http://www.geobalcanica.org/wp-content/uploads/AGB/2022/AGB-2022-8-4.pdfconflict landscapeslandscape archaeologypolemoformsmilitary archivesfirst world war |
| spellingShingle | Nicolas Jacob-Rousseau THE SCARS OF WAR, "POLEMOFORMS" OF THE SALONIKA FRONT IN BALKAN LANDSCAPES Acta Geobalcanica conflict landscapes landscape archaeology polemoforms military archives first world war |
| title | THE SCARS OF WAR, "POLEMOFORMS" OF THE SALONIKA FRONT IN BALKAN LANDSCAPES |
| title_full | THE SCARS OF WAR, "POLEMOFORMS" OF THE SALONIKA FRONT IN BALKAN LANDSCAPES |
| title_fullStr | THE SCARS OF WAR, "POLEMOFORMS" OF THE SALONIKA FRONT IN BALKAN LANDSCAPES |
| title_full_unstemmed | THE SCARS OF WAR, "POLEMOFORMS" OF THE SALONIKA FRONT IN BALKAN LANDSCAPES |
| title_short | THE SCARS OF WAR, "POLEMOFORMS" OF THE SALONIKA FRONT IN BALKAN LANDSCAPES |
| title_sort | scars of war polemoforms of the salonika front in balkan landscapes |
| topic | conflict landscapes landscape archaeology polemoforms military archives first world war |
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