"In the XV century, the Turks, occupying Asia Minor, began the conquest of the Balkan Peninsula, the Middle East and North Africa. After the conquest of Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire, which had formed, began to incorporate vast territories in the eastern Mediterranean, in the Black Sea region, and in western Asia. On these lands lived a lot of people differing from the Turks by religion, nationality and worldview.
Repeatedly against the rule of Turkey on the peninsula there were uprisings. In the XIX century, on the wave of anti-colonial wars and uprisings, a series of liberation wars occurred in the region. There were such states as Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro and Romania.
After the Italian-Turkish war, the countries of the Balkan Peninsula, the opponents of the Ottoman Empire, realized the need for consolidation. The unifying factors were both common goals and common features of the peoples – Serbs, Montenegrins and Bulgarians were Orthodox Slavs. The Greeks were also Orthodox. The Russian Empire , which competed with Austria-Hungary in the Balkans, played an important role in the region, and it needed to establish itself in this part of Europe…."
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