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Strange case of BALKAN....
✌NATIONALISM IN EUROPE CHAPTER
✌HISTORY CLASS 10....
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BALKAN POLITICS :
• The strange case of Balkan is also called as "Balkan Politics".
• Balan is a peninsula in Europe where people from different sects and languages lived there.
• The countries belonging to this peninsula were Serbia, Croatia, Albania etc.
• This area was under the Ottoman Empire of Turkey.
• After the end of the Ottoman Empire, many countries wanted to control this region.
• However, Turkey and Russia were in competition to control Black and Mediterranean seas.
• So, this competition created a tense situated around the world.
• Serbia was under the control of Austria which was not accepted by Serbian rebels.
• Balkan Politics was one of the reasons for the first world war.
Answer:
- Balkan was a cluster of present day countries like Serbia, albaria, Romania, etc..
- It was ruled by Ottoman empire and inhabitants were called slavs.
- disintegration of Ottoman empire and spread of nationalist ideas in Europe made this area very explosive.
- revolutionaries of this region demanded for independence.
- after the balkan states got independence, they were jealous of each other and wanted to extend their territories.
- European powers - austro-hungary, Russia, Germany and Britain wanted to extend their influence an dominance on this region.
- This led to series of wars known as world war 1
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