Download Episode! 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.
Download Episode! Napoleon conquered Europe, including the Northwest Balkans, in a flash, and then just as quick, lost it all again. On the way, he found time to bring down the last (sort of) Roman Emperor.
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.
Ethnic Map of Macedonia from the Bulgarian point of view. Author: Th. Weinreb / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macedonia_-_Point_of_View_of_the_Bulgarians.jpgEthnic Map of Macedonia from the Serbian point of view. Author: Th. Weinreb / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macedonia_-_Point_of_View_of_the_Serbs.jpg
Download Episode! 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…..