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Eastern Question

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Eastern Question term designating the problem of European territory controlled by the decaying Ottoman Empire in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th cent. The Turkish threat to Europe was checked by the Hapsburgs in the 16th cent., but the Ottoman Turks still controlled the Balkan Peninsula. With the Treaty of Karlowitz (1699), the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire began, and Russia started to push toward the Black Sea. In the 18th cent., France supported the Turks against Russia and Austria. The Eastern Question came into sharp focus during the reign of Czarina Catherine II with the... Read more
Eastern Question
Eastern Question. This was the problem created by the slow collapse of the Ottoman...destabilize the Austrian empire. It can plausibly be argued that the Eastern Question caused the First World War . Austria angered Serbia by annexing Bosnia... Read more
Eastern Question
Eastern Question This was the problem created by the slow collapse of the Ottoman (Turkish...volatility of the emerging Balkan states. It can be argued that the Eastern Question caused the First World War . Austria angered Serbia by annexing Bosnia... Read more

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