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The Balkan Wars were two wars that took place in the Balkans in 1912 and 1913. Four Balkan states defeated the Ottoman Empire in the first war; one of the four, Bulgaria, was defeated in the second war. The Ottoman Empire lost nearly all of its holdings in Europe.
Map showing the borders of the Balkan states before and after both Balkan Wars.. The League of the Balkans was a quadruple alliance formed by a series of bilateral treaties concluded in 1912 between the Eastern Orthodox kingdoms of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, and directed against the Ottoman Empire, [1] which still controlled much of Southeastern Europe.
The general local elections of October 2000 marked the loss of control of the Democrats over the local governments and a victory for the Socialists. In 2001, Albania made strides toward democratic reform and the rule of law , serious deficiencies in the electoral code remain to be addressed, as demonstrated in the elections .
1912 was to be an eventful year in Rumelia. From August, the Ottoman Government recognised the autonomy of Albania. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In October 1912, the Balkan states, following their own national aspirations [ 9 ] [ 10 ] jointly attacked the Ottoman Empire and during the next few months partitioned nearly all of Rumelia , the Ottoman territories ...
It is estimated that in the years 1912–1914 c. 890,000 civilians of various nationalities crossed the borders of the Balkan countries, including also those of the Ottoman Empire. [102] The intense influx of refugees from the region and the news of the massacres caused a deep shock in the Ottoman mainland.
The four Ottoman vilayets clearly divided (vilayet of İşkodra, Yannina, Monastir and Kosovo as proposed by the League of Prizren for full autonomy). The 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War severely contracted the Ottoman possessions in the Balkan Peninsula, leaving the empire with only a precarious hold on Macedonia and the western Balkans.
U.S. State Department. "The Formation of the Balkan Alliance of 1912" (1918) Archived 1 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine; C. Hall, Richard: Balkan Wars 1912–1913, in: 1914–1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Project Gutenberg's The Balkan Wars: 1912–1913, by Jacob Gould Schurman; US Library of Congress in the ...
Ethnic map of the Balkans (1880) Transhumance ways of the Romance-speaking Vlach shepherds in the past The Balkan region today is a very diverse ethnolinguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic and Romance languages , as well as Albanian , Greek , Turkish , Hungarian and others.