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Second Concert of Europe 1871; Great Eastern Crisis 1875–1878; ... (today's Lebanon, Syria, and ... as Bulgarian camps were located next to Serbs and were ...
Lepenski Vir site in Serbia. First human settlement in Europe is Iron Gates Mesolithic (11000 to 6000 BC), located in Danube River, in modern Serbia and Romania.It has been described as "the first city in Europe", [3] [4] due to its permanency, organisation, as well as the sophistication of its architecture and construction techniques.
After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart in the early 1990s. . Unresolved issues from the breakup caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars from 1991 to 2001 which primarily affected Bosnia and Herzegovina, neighbouring parts of Croatia and, some years later, K
The Bosnian Crisis, also known as the Annexation Crisis (German: Bosnische Annexionskrise, Turkish: Bosna Krizi; Serbo-Croatian: Aneksiona kriza, Анексиона криза) or the First Balkan Crisis, erupted on 5 October 1908 [1] when Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, [a] territories formerly within the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire but under Austro ...
Shortly thereafter, NATO created the Non-Article 5 Medal for Balkans service to combine both Yugoslavian and Kosovo operations into one service medal. [ 380 ] Due to the involvement of the United States armed forces , a separate US military decoration , known as the Kosovo Campaign Medal , was established by President Bill Clinton in 2000.
February 9: Balkan Pact was signed by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Greece, Romania and Turkey. October 9: King Alexander was killed in Marseille by Vlado Chernozemski of the IMRO in cooperation with Croatian Ustaše. December 22: Vladko Maček released from jail.
The First Balkan War (1912–1913), which pitted the Balkan League (Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Serbia) against the Ottoman Empire, resulted in the defeat of the latter and its withdrawal from most of the Balkans.
Danish cartoon shows Balkan states attacking the Ottoman Empire in the First Balkan War, October 1912 The Treaty of London ended the First Balkan War on 30 May 1913. All Ottoman territory west of the Enez - Kıyıköy line was ceded to the Balkan League, according to the status quo at the time of the armistice.