A diadalmas magyar és bolgár seregek egyesülése, 1915 Austria Hungary postcard: Hungarian hussars in blue and Bulgarian

A diadalmas magyar és bolgár seregek egyesülése Kladovónál (The Union of the Victorious Hungarian and Bulgarian Armies at Kladovo), bilingual postcard

Hungarian hussars in blue and Bulgarian cavalry in grey greet each other in the field, hats and sabres raised, a wrecked gun wheel in the foreground. The caption, printed in Hungarian and in Bulgarian, calls both armies 'victorious'; the embrace lends the alliance a fraternal warmth in place of any account of the campaign.

Propaganda techniques used in this postcard

Transfer

Date: 1915
Period: First World War
Made by: Posner, Budapest (publisher, as printed on the card); artist Károly Mühlbeck

Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights

Region: Western and Central Europe
Country: Austria Hungary
Medium: Postcard
Issuer type: Corporation
Regime: Austria Hungary
Leader: Franz Joseph I
Audience: Mixed
Purpose: Commemorate
Theme: War and the military
Event: World War I
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 2026
Rights: Public domain (published 1915; artist died 1943; Commons PD-old / PDM tag)
Mühlbeck, Károly (1869-1943), artist; Posner, Budapest, publisher. 1915. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Text on the object

Original (Multiple) · read from the image, not independently checked

A diadalmas magyar és bolgár seregek egyesülése
Kladovónál, 1915. október 27-én.
Съединяванието на побѣдоноситѣ българоки и
унгароки войски при Кладово, на 27. октомври 1915.

Mühlbeck K [artist's signature]
POSNER, BUDAPEST. [vertical, right edge]

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

The union of the victorious Hungarian and Bulgarian armies
at Kladovo, on 27 October 1915.
The union of the victorious Bulgarian and Hungarian troops
at Kladovo, on 27 October 1915. [Bulgarian]

Mühlbeck K [artist's signature]
POSNER, BUDAPEST. [vertical, right edge]

Two-language caption, Hungarian above and Bulgarian (in Cyrillic) below. The Bulgarian adjectives are transcribed as printed ('българоки', 'унгароки'), which look like misprints of 'български' and 'унгарски'; one letter in 'побѣдоноситѣ' is uncertain. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.