The Eastern Question Flashcards
-European challenges and Ottoman responses -Crimean War -Causes and outcomes of 19th century crises in the Balkans
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The Eastern Question
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- what should happen to the Balkans if and when the Ottoman Empire disappeared as the fundamental political fact in Southeastern Europe?
- The Great Powers approached each crisis with the hope of emerging with the maximum advantage. Sometimes this led one or another to support revolutionary change. More often, state interests led them to support the status quo
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Treaty of Adrianople (1829)
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-Moldavia and Wallachia (principalities in the Balkans) became self-governing
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Battle of Navarino (1827)
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-Greek war of independence culminated
