The factual accuracy of this map or the file name is disputed.
Reason: this map makes entirely no sense. Apples get confused with oranges and then with bananas: Belgrade has not ever been a souvereign state (afaik). Serbia (and before, Yugoslavia and various other states) is the country that should be considered, but current Serbia (that exists in its borders since 2006) has not established relations to the Portuguese Republic (that exists since 1974), as the map claims, in 1882. That would have been the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Portugal. On the other hand, the Kingdom of Serbia also certainly entertained "formal foreign relations" to Germany (previously the German Empire) long before 1951, did it not? After all, even Austria is counted with 1874, which was the prime time of K+K Austria-Hungary. The map furthermore claims that the (souzereign!) Principality of Serbia already enjoyed formal foreign relations to the UK and Russia since 1837 and 1838 respectively? How was that possible, given that the Sublime Porte was the souvereign over 'Belgrade' until 1878? Yet, relations with Turkey (i.e. the Osman Empire) began only in 1879? Next, was there really no formal exchange with Lithuania and Estonia in the interwar times? How come then that Latvia and Yugoslavia (both gaining formal independence from their overlords in November 1918) already established formal relations one year earlier?? And then Croatia, denoted as 1996. Have there not been any formal foreign relations between any previous regimes before? For example, there were the Independent State of Croatia and the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia. Also, if even San Marino established foreign relations in 2002: why has there never been an attempt to establish relations with Luxemburg? |