describe explosive condition prevailed in Balkans after 1871 in Europe
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A large part of Balkans was under the control of Ottoman Empire.
The spread of ideas of Romantic Nationalism in the Balkans together with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire made this region explosive.
All throughout the 19th century the Ottoman Empire had sought to strengthen itself.
The Balkan people based their claims for independence or political rights on nationality and used history for their claim.
Balkan also became the scene of rivalry among big powers
⏩ The Balkans was a region of geographical and ethinic variation comprising modern day Romania, Bulgaria, Albania,Greece etc... whose inhabitants were broadly known as Slavs.
⏩ A large part of the Balkans was under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
⏩ The spread of the ideas of romantic nationalism in the Balkans together with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire made this region very explosive.
⏩ All through the 19th century the Ottoman Empire sought to strengthen itself through modernisation and internal reforms but with very little success.
⏩ Its European subject nationalities broke away from its control and declared independence.
⏩ The Balkan peoples based their claims for independence and used history to prove that they had once been independent.
⏩ Hence, the rebellious nationalities in the Balkans thought of their struggle as attempts to win back their long-lost Independence.
⏩As the struggle to define their identity as independence, the Balkans area became an area of intense conflict.
⏩The Balkans also became the scene of big power rivalry