БАЛКАНСКИ НАРОДИ У КРИЗНОЈ 1908. ГОДИНИ
Balkan Nations in the Crisis Year of 1908

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 20th century the great powers started to lose control over the events on the Balkan peninsula. After the Congress of Berlin (1878), Russia and Austria-Hungary played the major role in the politics of the Balkans. After 1908 these two great powers belonged to two different political alliances. Russia was facing direct Austrian expansion on the Balkans, and had to fight to maintain the patronage over the Balkan nations. Aware of the fact that the great powers were only looking after their own interests, the Balkan nations tried to liberate themselves from Austrian and Ottoman occupation without their support. The peak of political crisis on the Balkans were Annexation an Young Turk revolution.

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