Balkans

As tensions surged, European nations formed military alliances to protect against attacks from enemy nations. They agreed to aid each other, or at least remain neutral. Although alliances were beneficial, there were also some disadvantages. An alliance could lead a nation to take risks, it could cause disputes between many nations, and it could force a country to go to war with a nation with which it was neutral. Germany formed an alliance with Austria-Hungary in 1871 and Italy in 1882. This…

The Ottomans were a strong nation and “” they stood at the crossroads of the intercontinental trade, stretching from the Balkans and the Black sea region through Anatolia, Syria, Mesopotamia, the gulf to Egypt, and most of the North African coast for six centuries until WWI.”” (Pamuk, 2004) This means the Ottomans were a strong influence on trade. They controlled the main routes…

between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman I.After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe, and with the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman Beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror. During the 16th and 17th centuries, at the height of its power…

In June of 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Heir to the Austrian throne, and his wife Sophie visited the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina to observe routine Austrian military maneuvers. It was in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo where both the Archduke and his wife lost their lives at the hands of a group of young Bosnian nationalists, who sought to liberate Bosnia from Austrian subjugation. The murder of the Archduke precipitated the July Crisis, where over the course of the month the great…

3). Ottoman Turkey felt threatened by nations such as Serbia, whose dream of a South Slav State could take land away from Turkey and Austria-Hungary. In 1912, multiple Balkan states attacked Turkey and succeeded in taking land away from Turkish control. The Balkan wars raised tensions to a fever pitch. Finally, in 1914, the Balkans were called the “powder keg of…

protect themselves and their allies if a war was to breakout, this is what lead Germany into the war; their alliance with Austria-Hungary. There had been a great deal of tension between Austria-Hungary and Serbia due to the conflict in the Balkans. When Austria annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina, it angered the Serbian government which made them create an open…

Wanting to destroy the Austro-Hungarian rule in the Balkans and to unite the South into a federal, he believed that the first step must be the assassination of the Habsburg imperial family or a high official (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1998). Unexpectedly, the incoming arrival of a secret society called The…

Great Powers spent millions on strengthening their defences and preparing for possibility of war. There had even been instances in 1905 and 1911 where clashes between Germany and France came close to war over Morocco but war was averted. Equally the Balkan league wars of 1912 and 1913 were encouraged by alliances working together. It is also true that the Great Powers devised detailed war plans through the early part of the 20th century which again suggests an expectation of war in the near…

1463, the Mevlevi fortified their teachings and were instrumental in the Islamization of this area . Of course, this was not without difficulties. According to one of the definitive works on Islamic conversion in the Balkans, Anton Minkov discusses the way that those within the Balkans identified themselves, stating that the local population’s affiliation to Orthodox faith was linked to the identity . In other words, one of the first problems the Ottomans faced within the region was how to…

One example of ethnocide presented in the text occurred in the Balkans. The Serbians were demolishing the Bosnian Muslim’s cultural symbols, such as a library and their mosques. This is ethnocide because the Serbians are destroying the Bosnian Muslim’s places of worship and knowledge in an attempt to wipe out their beliefs. Moreover, another example of ethnocide is in Canada, when the Parti Québécois (PQ) came to power in 1976 and required the language of French to be taught in schools and be…