Map of ethnography by religious affiliation (1920)

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In this ethnographic map of the Balkan peninsula, we begin to see the distribution of ethnic groups depicted in more granularity. (This is also an early map to organize ethnicity by religious affiliation). After Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination and the start of WWI thereafter, the western Balkans were particularly effected by political reorganization along these religious lines which were generally proxy for empirical allegiances. The Yugoslavs (south Slavs) are, except for the Slovenes, classified by religious affiliation; we see the emergence of the identifier Serbo-Croat, for example, as they are identified as Orthodox, Catholic, or "Islamised". The Romanians and Greeks are similarly delineated as a form of Christian or "Islamised". It is interesting to note that Albanians are not given their own ethnic category, but are considered a Macedonian Slav which has been "Albanianised". This is/was a controversial view.