The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Second Edition
Jacob Gould Schurman
Subjects: DR, Balkan Peninsula -- History -- War of 1912-1913, I
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Subjects: DR, Balkan Peninsula -- History -- War of 1912-1913, I
Downloads: 196
The Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, and Bulgaria) first conquered Ottoman-held Macedonia and most of Thrace and then fell out over the division of the spoils. Tensions among the Balkan states over their rival aspirations to the provinces of Ottoman-occupied Roumelia, namely Eastern Roumelia, Thrace and Macedonia, subsided somewhat following intervention by the Great Powers in the mid-19th century, aimed at securing both fuller protection for the provinces' Christian majority and protection of the status quo. By 1867 Greece, Serbia and Montenegro have all secured their independence.
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