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English: The Balkan territorial changes between 1856 (Treaty of Paris) and 1878 (Treaty of Berlin). Borders in 1856 (Treaty of Paris) Internal Ottoman borders (autonomous territories) (1878)
Pro-Greek ethnic map of the Balkans by Ioannis Gennadius, [5] published by the English cartographer E. Stanford in 1877. In the decades leading up to the congress, Russia and the Balkans had been gripped by Pan-Slavism, a movement to unite all the Balkan Slavs under one rule.
A 1726 map of The Ottoman Empire in the Balkans The Balkans at the end of the 19th century. ... (1876-1878), and the bloody ... free download; full coverage for ...
[1] [2] In the aftermath of the Russian victory against the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, the major powers restructured the map of the Balkan region. They reversed some of the extreme gains claimed by Russia in the preliminary Treaty of San Stefano, but the Ottomans lost their major holdings in Europe.
The Great Eastern Crisis of 1875–1878 began in the Ottoman Empire's territories on the Balkan peninsula in 1875, with the outbreak of several uprisings and wars that resulted in the intervention of international powers, and was ended with the Treaty of Berlin in July 1878.
In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars Bulgarian opinion turned against Russia and the western powers, whom the Bulgarians felt had done nothing to help them. The government of Vasil Radoslavov aligned Bulgaria with Germany and Austria-Hungary , even though this meant also becoming an ally of the Ottomans, Bulgaria's traditional enemy.
Most of the Balkans came under Ottoman control by the 16th century and were governed as part of Rumelia, corresponding to most of the modern Balkan region. During the Serbian–Ottoman War of 1876–78, between 49,000 and 130,000 Albanian civilians were violently expelled by the Serb army from the Sanjak of Niš and fled to the Kosovo Vilayet.
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