What did it say about the rise of nationalism? This leads into the third significant issue of the Balkan wars, the assertion of the claims of nationalism as the focal point of political legitimacy.

War in October last year saw those countries unite as the Balkan League to attack the Ottoman Empire. Seven months of fighting were ended with the effective removal of Ottoman power in the Balkans ...

Clark sees the war as growing from Balkan roots, the initial crisis in many ways being the onset of a Third Balkan War, and certainly the events of that summer make sense only in the context of the ...