How the Balkan Peninsula Transformed from Ottoman 'Outlying Province' to 'European Powder Keg'
The Balkan Peninsula, a crucial crossroads between Europe and Asia, has a storied history marked by the rise of the Byzantine Empire and the iron grip of the Ottoman Empire. From the conquest of the ...
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204th l Anniversary of the 25th of March, 1821 Greek Independence Day
The struggle of the enslaved Greeks against their ruthless rulers, the Ottoman Turks, officially started on the 25th of March 1821 ...
RTE Online5mon
The Balkans and the outbreak of war
and Montenegro formed the Balkan League and fought against the Ottoman empire. Montenegro, the smallest of these states, declared war against the Ottoman empire on 8 October. Its allies followed ...
Greek Reporter12d
Rigas Feraios: On the Trail of the Protomartyr of Greek Independence
Rigas Feraios was a Greek revolutionary who fought in the mountains and worked as a writer, merchant, and agitator in the ...
Hotel Baskuca
A bout 700 feet from Zambezi National Park and less than a 10-minute drive to Mosi-oa-Tunya, a.k.a. Victoria Falls, one of ...
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Sofia Airport Renamed to Honour Bulgaria’s ‘Apostle of Freedom’
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev issued a decree on Monday to rename Sofia Airport after national hero Vassil Levski (1837-1873), a rebel during the period of Ottoman rule. The decree described ...
RTE Online6y
The Balkans and the outbreak of war
and Montenegro formed the Balkan League and fought against the Ottoman empire. Montenegro, the smallest of these states, declared war against the Ottoman empire on 8 October. Its allies followed ...