National Geographic - The Doubling of Greece 1912-1913 1/6

territories gained in the First Balkan War. Background The background to the wars lies in the incomplete emergence of nation-states on the fringes of the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century. The Serbs had gained substantial territory during the Russo-Turkish War, 18771878, while Greece acquired Thessaly in 1881 (although it lost a small area back to the Ottoman Empire in 1897) and Bulgaria (an autonomous principality since 1878) incorporated the formerly distinct province of Eastern ...
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