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The Balkans theatre or Balkan campaign was a theatre of World War I fought between the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany and the Ottoman Empire) and the Allies (Serbia, Montenegro, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, and later, Greece). The offensive began in 1914 with three failed Austro-Hungarian offensives into Serbia.
The Balkan Peninsula, ... A 1726 map of The Ottoman Empire in the Balkans The Balkans at the ... The war set the stage for the Balkan crisis of 1914 and thus was a ...
The Balkan peninsula is seen as an example of shatter belts in ... (1914–1918). ... Albania was the only addition to the existing Balkan map at that time, ...
Map of the Ottoman Empire in 1900 ... their compatriots and expand their territories in the Balkan Peninsula. ... Great Powers and the Balkan States, 1908–1914 ...
The powder keg of Europe or Balkan powder keg was the Balkans in the early part of the 20th century preceding World War I. There were many overlapping claims to territories and spheres of influence between the major European powers such as the Russian Empire , the Austro-Hungarian Empire , the German Empire and, to a lesser degree, the Ottoman ...
Montenegro was the smallest nation in the Balkan Peninsula, ... It is estimated that in the years 1912–1914 c. 890,000 ... Map of Europe during First Balkan War at ...
The Austro-Hungarian situation in the Balkans pre-1914 is a primary factor in its involvement in the war. The movement towards South Slav unity was a major problem for the Habsburg Empire, which was facing increasing nationalist pressure from its multinational populace. As Europe's third largest state, the Austro-Hungarian monarchy was hardly ...
The Balkan Wars (1912–1913) and World War I (1914–1918) left the region of Macedonia divided among Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Albania and resulted in significant changes in its ethnic composition. 51% of the region's territory went to Greece, 38% to Serbia and 10% to Bulgaria.