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Hi there. The map is a lovely contribution, but it leaves open some questions regarding the accuracy of borders. What caught my eye here was the situation of Romania as depicted on the map: note that, through the Bucharest Peace of 1918, Romania actually lost an entire slice of the Carpathians to the Austrians, and a random slice of Dobruja was made part of Bulgaria; also note that, while this map divides Bessarabia in two, between Romania and Ukraine (which is plausible as far as some German bureaucrats may have envisaged the issue at the time), the Central Powers did in fact make it so that, by spring 1918, all of Bessarabia became Romanian territory. As we stand, that part of this map clashes with File:RomaniaLosses1918.jpg, which is pretty accurate even though currently uncited.

There are other details that seem to clash with the events as they unfolded in early 1918: where is the Belarusian People's Republic, for instance? Where are Bulgaria's other extensions, into Macedonia etc.? And the bit of trans-Caspian territory that currently shows up on the map as Russian territory, around Mangystau Province, was presumably going to be included in some other plans for Turkestan, so maybe we could edit it out of the map altogether? Dahn (talk) 10:16, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

(The above are details that refer to territorial concessions that did occur in the day, and that where left out of the sources used, or ignored by the editor who designed this map. I left out the more speculative details, which some historians discuss, such as for instance the fact that, since Austria was already a mere pawn for Germany, it was entirely possible that some Austrian territory was going to be ceded to other client states - Bukovina to Romania and/or Ukraine, for instance.) Dahn (talk) 10:26, 30 January 2012 (UTC)