why did balkan area become an area of intanse conflict
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The First Balkan War had three main causes: The Ottoman Empire was unable to reform itself, govern satisfactorily, or deal with the rising ethnic nationalism of its diverse peoples. The Great Powers quarreled amongst themselves and failed to ensure that the Ottomans would carry out the needed reforms.
Explanation:
Balkans was a region of geographical and ethnic variations comprising modern day Romania,Bulgaria,Albania,Greece,Macedonia,Croatia,Bosnia- Herzegovina,Serbia Slovenia and Montenegro.Their inhabitants we're broadly known as the slaves.A large part of the Balkans was under the control of Ottoman Empire.
* The spread of ideas of Romanticism in the Balkans along with the disintegration of the ottoman Empire made this region very explosive. In the 19th century with the denied of ottoman empire the interest of major European powers increased.
One by one all its European subject broke away from its control and declared independence.
* Each power Russia,Germany,England and Austro- Hungary_ was keen on countering the hold of other powers over Balkans,and extending its own power. This lead to a series of wars and finally to the First World War.
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