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Only Serbia and Montenegro remained together as one nation called Serbia. The new nations of Slovenia and Macedonia proved somewhat stable, but conflict raged among the Serbs, Bosnians, and Croats in the other three nations of Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Croatia. The ethnic war would eventually be the bloodiest war in Europe since World War II.

But more powerful people within Austria-Hungary—including the leader of Austria's armed forces—saw the murder as an opportunity to teach Serbia a lesson and gain more power in the Balkans (a group of countries occupying the Balkan Peninsula, including the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Serbia, Bulgaria ...

May 21, 2018 · Triple Alliance [1] and Triple Entente (äntänt´), two international combinations of states that dominated the diplomatic history of Western Europe [2] from 1882 until they came into armed conflict in World War I [3].

Jun 8, 2018 · The largest numbers of Slovaks outside of Slovakia can be found in the United States, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Hungary. Hundreds of thousands of Slovaks emigrated to North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, making the number of Slovaks and those of Slovak descent range today between 800,000 and ...

When the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, was assassinated by a Serbian terrorist on 28 June 1914 and the leadership in Vienna used this event to unleash a war against Serbia, the full effect of the alliance system became evident. Germany, Austria-Hungary's alliance partner, was if anything even more bent on war ...

The implosion of the Ottoman Empire was to have long-lasting effects. Serbia and Bulgaria broke free of Turkish control in 1877, creating a power vacuum. This led to “the Eastern Question,” as Austria, Russia, and Balkan nationalists strove to exert their influence in the region. Their bickering catalyzed the bloodbath of World War I.

All of Serbia and several other cities are annexed by the Ottoman Empire 1473: Mehmed II gains control of all of Anatolia during the Battle of Otlukbeli 1483: Bayezid II takes control of Herzegovina 1512–1520: Selim I greatly expands the Empire; Syria, Egypt, and the Hejaz are annexed. Ottomans now control all traditional trade routes 1540:

Austria also occupied the sanjak (Turkish district) of Novi Pazar. Montenegro, Serbia, and Romania got full independence from the Ottoman Empire and made some territorial gains, and so did Greece, which got a border rectification in Thessaly. Russia got Ardahan, Batum (now Batumi), and Kars from the Ottomans and Bessarabia from Romania, in ...

Jun 11, 2018 · Others agreed, seeing Serbia as the Piedmont of a South Slav nation-state, in a reference to the mid-nineteenth-century unification of Italy around the independent monarchy of that name. More broadly, the legitimacy accorded to nation-states made the defense of the nation, once established, the strongest justification for war.