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In the decades after the great upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars, a young Croatian named Ljudevit Gaj will launch the first movement for a united South Slavic state.
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In the 1780s, Emperor Joseph II attempted in vain to single-handedly drag the Habsburg Empire into the modern era.
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Today, we introduce the Habsburg Empire and take a tour round it.
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Today, we open the final chapter in the Balkans before the Great War, taking a tour round what’s left of Ottoman territory in Europe before seeing how the Balkan nation-states competed over it.
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Serbia gets used to its new King as Europe sets the stage for World War I.
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King Alexander I ascended the Serbian throne at the age of 12 in 1889. He didn’t know it, but he was to be the last of the Obrenović dynasty…..
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So Serbia is now independent, and instead of just a Prince, it now has a King. OK. Now what?
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The second half of the great war of the 1870s in the Balkans.
Maps page including new map for 1878 here.
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Today, we enter the most important event in Serbia’s history since the Second Uprising, as the Principality goes to war with the Ottomans again.
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In 1858, Miloš and Mihailo Obrenović came back from exile. This week, we’ll see what they got up to second time round.
Also, there are now maps!
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