On Oct. 8, 1912, the tiny Kingdom of Montenegro declared war on a weakened Ottoman Empire, kicking off what is now known as the First Balkan War. Three other Balkan states in league with the ...

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In the Balkans, tradition is often deemed to be fixed and patriarchal. Yet the region’s history, folklore and popular memory ...

Conflict between Russia and the Ottoman Empire was a mainstay of the Eastern Mediterranean world for over one hundred and fifty years, a series of wars that are often addressed as part of broader ...

American intervention is often debated as if it were a single moral act, repeated across history with interchangeable results. It is not. The Balkans War vs Afghanistan offers a clearer comparative ...

Legal experts and historians have reacted with outrage to the controversial war crimes acquittal of firebrand Serb Vojislav Seselj, saying it overturns international law and rewrites the history of ...