Old Serbia
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Old Serbia is a Serbian historiographical term that is used to describe the territory that according to the dominant school of Serbian historiography in the late 19th century formed the core of the Se
Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul of Stari Ras in Raška, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Church of St. George in North Macedonia, founded by Stefan Milutin, King of Serbia
Novo Brdo Fortress, a medieval Serbian fortress in Kosovo
Patriarchal Monastery of Peć in Kosovo, the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church from the 14th century when its status was upgraded into a patriarchate, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Balkan Wars
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The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkan states in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan states of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon t
Old Serbia
…nationalism and changed the goal of Serbia's territorial expansion from the west to the south and were important to Serbian nationalism during the Balkan Wars and the First World War. In the early nineteenth century, Old Serbia as a concept was introduced by Vuk Karadžić in his ethnographic, geographic and…
A Bulgarian postcard depicting the Battle of Lule Burgas.
A Punch cartoon of October 2, 1912, by English cartoonist Leonard Raven-Hill depicting Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia sitting on a lid on top of a pot marked "Balkan Troubles", satirizing the situation in the Balkans leading up to the First Balkan War
Nazım Pasha, the chief of staff of the Ottoman army, was assassinated in January 1913 by Young Turks due to his failure.
Bulgarian forces waiting to start their assault on Adrianople