Turk prisoners enter Vrania (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Turk prisoners enter Vrania
[1912 or 1913]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows Turkish prisoners, probably during the First Balkan War,
1912-1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11348
Call Number: LC-B2- 2501-1
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Harry Angstrom (54 months ago | reply)
This Wikipedia article about the First Balkan War has a helpful map, which if examined in full resolution, shows Vrania. It can be found on this map west of Sophia (Bulgaria), on the border between Serbia and Macedonia::
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Balkan_War
Looks like it is now called Vranje and is in southern region of Serbia. Here is Wikpedia article about it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vranje
Newspaper account in Internet: (Oct 18, 1912)
"The Turkish troops attacked the Ser vian outposts near VRANIA. a customs examination station on the line to Salonica and crossed into Servian territory."
In other accounts Vrania is mentioned as being on the rail line between Nish and Salonica. Salonica is currently called Thessaloniki (population 1million), in Greece:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessaloniki
Here is a article on Nish a city in Serbia with 250K inhabitants.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nish
Vrania is also described as being on the railway between Nish and Skopie (Skopje) in Macedonia.
The Library of Congress (54 months ago | reply)
Thank you, Harry. We will add a note to the source data and reload the description
Jayel Aheram, zTransmissions, and NataliaMA added this photo to their favorites.
dghagi (43 months ago | reply)
Hi, I just found that interesting photo. That`s correct, the town`s name is Vranje (It was Vranja once, but due to pronunciation difficulties of the westerners it is written Vrania, i guess) and it is taken after the First Balkan War. Really nice photo, that`s my hometown. It has population of around 60.000 total
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