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The report speaks of the numerous violations of international conventions and war crimes committed during the Balkan Wars. [2] [3] The information collected was published by the Endowment in the early summer of 1914, but was soon overshadowed by the beginning of the First World War. [4]
The Second Balkan war was a catastrophic blow to Russian policies in the Balkans, which for centuries had focused on access to the "warm seas". First, it marked the end of the Balkan League, a vital arm of the Russian system of defense against Austria-Hungary.
The Balkans: a short history from Greek times to the present day. Crane, Russak. ISBN 978-0-8448-0072-1. Jeffries, Ian, and Robert Bideleux. The Balkans: A Post-Communist History (2007). Jelavich, Barbara (1983a). History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521274586. Jelavich, Barbara.
The Balkans Since 1453 is a book by the Greek-Canadian historian L.S. Stavrianos published in 1958. It is a large, synthetic work which encompasses the major political , economic and cultural events of the Balkans from the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the late 1940s.
This chapter of Albanian history was shrouded in controversy and conflict as the larger part of the self-proclaimed region had found itself controlled by the Balkan League states: Serbia, Montenegro and Greece from the time of the declaration until the period of recognition when Albania relinquished many of the lands originally included in the ...
The decision to increase taxes for paying the Ottoman Empire's debts to foreign creditors resulted in outrage in the Balkan provinces, which culminated in the Great Eastern Crisis and ultimately the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) that provided independence or autonomy for the Christian nations in the empire's Balkan territories, with the ...
In the early 19th century, most of the Balkans was under Ottoman rule. Christian communities of Serbs and Greeks, under Ottoman control for four centuries, rose up and succeeded in obtaining autonomy by means of the Serbian Revolution of 1804–17 and Greek War of Independence of 1821–29, establishing the Principality of Serbia and the Hellenic Republic. [2]
The Balkans: a history of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Rumania, Turkey (1915) summary histories by scholars online free; Harris, David. A diplomatic history of the Balkan crisis of 1875-1878: the first year (1969). Kovic, Milos. Disraeli and the Eastern Question (Oxford UP, 2010).