As tensions escalated in the Balkans, a coalition of nations ignited conflict against the declining Ottoman Empire. The Young Turk movement sought to modernize, but nationalist ambitions proved ...

This travelling show explores how Ankara, Istanbul, Belgrade and Sarajevo changed after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Many aspects of everyday life in the cities went on undisturbed, following ...

An archive in Serbia holds rare images of the war that freed the Balkans from Ottoman rule 110 years ago. The photographer who made the striking pictures disappeared without a trace. This image, of a ...

Turkey is expanding its economic and cultural influence over the Balkans, and analysts say the strategy, which targets the region's large Muslim minorities, is worrying some of its Western allies. The ...

Seven years before, the Great Powers took a map of the Balkans and cut Bulgarian lands into pieces. The Treaty of Berlin left a Principality of Bulgaria north of the Balkan range, created an ...

The Ottoman Empire is one of the most famous and well-known empires in European and world history. From the 14th to the beginning of the 20th century, it decisively influenced the historical trends in ...