Balkan League
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The League of the Balkans was a quadruple alliance formed by a series of bilateral treaties concluded in 1912 between the Eastern Orthodox kingdoms of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, and directed against the Ottoman Empire, which at the time still controlled much of Southeastern Europe.
The Bosnian Crisis of 1908 altered the balance of power in the Balkans and precipitated events that would lead to the formation of the Balkan League. Cover of the French periodical Le Petit Journal.
The Balkans at the time of the formation of the Balkan League, before the Balkan Wars.
Military alliance poster, 1912.
Kingdom of Greece
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The Kingdom of Greece was established in 1832 and was the successor state to the First Hellenic Republic. It was internationally recognised by the Treaty of Constantinople, where Greece also secured its full independence from the Ottoman Empire after nearly four centuries.
Otto, the first king of modern Greece
King George I of the Hellenes
The Hellenic Parliament in the 1880s, with PM Charilaos Trikoupis standing at the podium
Fencing before King George, during the 1896 Summer Olympics