Central Powers of World War I (For Want of a Telegram)

Mittelmächte (German) Központi hatalmak (Hungarian) Poteri Centrali (Italian) İttifak Devletleri (Turkish) Centrale Krachten (Dutch) Централни сили (Bulgarian) Central Powers 1879–1921 The Central Powers and their colonies Capital None (de jure) Berlin (de facto) Official language German Hungarian Italian Turkish Dutch Bulgarian Religion Catholicism Lutheranism Orthodoxy Sunni Islam Government Military alliance Historical era World War I  - Dual Alliance 7 October 1879  - Dissolved 1 March 1921

The Central Powers (German: Mittelmächte; Hungarian: Központi hatalmak; Italian: Poteri Centrali; Turkish: İttifak Devletleri or Bağlaşma Devletleri; Dutch: Centrale Krachten; Bulgarian: Централни сили Tsentralni sili), of World War I consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, the Ottoman Empire, the Netherlands and Bulgaria was one of the two main factions during World War I (1914–18). It faced and defeated the Allied Powers that had formed around the Triple Entente. The alliance was dissolved in 1921.