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The Central Powers were a group of nations fighting against the Allied Powers during World War I;
The members included Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria and their territories. They were also supported by Azerbaijan and Finland, as well as Lithuania in 1918 and co-belligerent Jabal Shammar. They lost the war. The Allied Forces included Great Britain, Canada, Newfoundland, Russia, France, later the United States, Greece, Portugal, Brazil, Georgia, Armenia, Australia and Japan.
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Europe in 1914.
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German soldiers in the battlefield in August 1914 on the Western Front shortly after the outbreak of war.
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German cavalry entering Warsaw in 1915.
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German Fokker Dr.I fighter aircraft of Jasta 26 at Erchin in German-occupied territory of France.
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Austro-Hungarian soldiers in trench on the Italian front during World War I.
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Austro-Hungarian soldiers marching up Mount Zion in Jerusalem in the Ottoman Empire, during the Middle Eastern campaign.
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Ottoman soldiers in military preparations for an assault on the Suez Canal in 1914.
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Kaiser Wilhelm II visiting the Turkish cruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim during his stay in Istanbul in October 1917 as a guest of Sultan Mehmed V.
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Bulgarian soldiers firing at an incoming aircraft.
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A postcard depicting the flags of the Central Powers' countries.
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The collapse of the Central Powers in 1918.
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The Leaders of Central Powers in 1914.