balkan wars

Red Feathers: History of WW1 Part 1 After the Franco-Prussian War, France would heavily fortify their border with Germany. France saw Germany as a threat and ramped up their military budget. They built trenches with heavy defensive layouts. Because of the reaction of France to Germany Europe...

I'm making a timeline and I'm not sure how the Ottomans would react or what they would to the Armenians. I'm trying to avoid thr Armenian genocide possibly get a Armenian state after WW1 in Central Powers timeline.

Although he was stripped of most of his powers in the wake of the Young Turk Revolution, sultan Abdul Hamid II was allowed to stay on the throne as long as he accepted the return of constitutional order (which he shut down in 1878), which he did - in public. Behind the scenes, he plotted to...

Hello everyone, I have this query about a question that came up recently. Taking into account the different interests in the Balkans and in the Ottoman Empire by the different powers, what would happen if diplomacy failed and caused the conflict in the Balkans to lead to the first world war...

The Great Bosnian Uprising which occurred from 1831-1832 was launched in response to frustrations from the Bosnian nobility at the Sultan's centralizing reforms which revoked privileges from the nobility and for the Sultan granting the autonomous Principality of Serbia 6 districts that were...

OTL the Balkan wars resulted in the defeat of Bulgaria, the break up of the Balkan League, Serbia becoming Russia's number one protege on the Balkan's, boosted by victory in moral and material with Austria remaining it's only target for expansion. Basically an austrian-serbian conflict was set...

Citing Assessing the Role of Turkey in British Foreign Policy 1908 - 1914 by Simon Tate:- "One of the solutions suggested during the crisis was the proposal to create a general defensive Balkan alliance, to maintain the regional status quo. This, indeed, became a key aim of British diplomacy...

Osman Reborn: The Survival of Ottoman Democracy *** Chapter 1: Preparations for War? *** “The Legacy of the Italo-Ottoman War is one of incredulity in Italy, and one that of pride in the Ottoman Empire, and not without reason. The war did a lot to restore the pride of its citizens in the...

OOC: This timeline is intended to be objectively better than our own, though it still has its issues. Please please please keep this in mind when replying. Okay, so Germany has been one of the most socially progressive countries in the entire world and has been since the 1920s, so I was...

During the first Balkan war after the Balkan alliance's victory the only thing between the bulgarians and the Ottoman Capitol were the last deefensive line of the Chataldzha. At that point in most european capitals it was assumed that Constatinople falling to the bulgarians is only a matter of...

In OTL's First Balkan War, the Balkan League made substantial territorial gains into Albania, arguably an Ottoman ally. Serbia was close to acquiring a Mediterranean coastline (the Durres/Durazzo/Dyrrhachium port), Shkoder had been taken and Greece had made some inroads into southern Albania...

WI the peace conference ended giving some more macedonia to Bulgaria while Serbia take a small portion of land ( like Bosnia today in OTL) to have the access to the sea? Is it possible or ASB?

Across the 1860's, there was apparently an effort by quite a few political entities in the Balkan peninsula (mainly Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, and anti-Ottoman Albanian tribes) to form a diplomatic alliance with the ultimate goal of creating a large-scale revolt against Ottoman rule in the...

If Tito's dream of an SFR Yugoslavia that contained Greek Macedonia, Thrace, Albania, Bulgaria, Carinthia, and Friuli Venezia Giulia had come into being, what effect would it have on the Yugoslav Wars (ignoring all other butterfly effects). The Yugoslav Wars of this timeline would probably be...

As the title says, if Bulgaria showed more restraint and did not initiate the Second Balkan War, and the Great War starts similarly to OTL with Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia due the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, how does the war turn out? Will Bulgaria still join the...

What if King Milan of Serbia had been more competent in his handling of the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885, leading to the serbs winning? What could this lead to? What sort of compensation would the serbs demand from Bulgaria? How differently would relations with Austria-Hungary play out, now that...

What if the break-up events of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia took place ten years earlier? 1972 Croatian Spring goes and gets suppressed as it was in OTL. 1974 Yugoslav Constitution gets confirmed as it was in OTL and Yugoslav collective government became founded. Main POD is...