Eastern Question
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Royalty, Rulers, Nobility, Military History, Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Empires, Dynasties, Ottoman Empire
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, Eastern European History, Middle Eastern History
- Geographical Location: Europe, Turkey, Asia Minor
- Date: Ninteenth and early twentieth centuries
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tension and contention among European nations over control of the disintegrating Ottoman Empire. Periods of internal instability within the Ottoman Empire caused other nations to eye their neighbors with suspicion, lest an enemy state take advantage of Turkish decline to bring new Eastern lands into its sphere of influence. The Eastern Question became particularly pressing during the Greek Revolution of the 1820’s, the Crimean War (1853- 1856), the Balkan crisis of 1875-1878, the Bosnian crisis of 1908, and the Balkan Wars (1912-1913)....
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