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Balkan Wars

1912 CE – 1913 CE · 1 year

Two rapid wars that expelled the Ottoman Empire from most of Europe and redrawed the Balkan map. The resulting tensions between the victors were a direct cause of World War I a year later.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Balkan League (Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Montenegro)
  • Ottoman Empire & Bulgaria (Second War)

Key moments

Defining events in the Balkan Wars.

  1. 1912 Battle of Kirk Kilisse
  2. 1912 Battle of Lule Burgas
  3. 1912 Battle of Kumanovo
  4. 1913 Siege of Adrianople

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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Landmark · Europe

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Sweden

Founded 900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Landmark · Europe

Danube Delta

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Denmark

Founded 800 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Landmark · Europe

Białowieża Forest

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Russian Empire

1721 CE – 1917 CE

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Qing Empire Polity · East Asia 1636 CE – 1912 CE Tea Horse Road Trade route · East Asia 700 CE – 1950 CE Thomas Edison Figure · United States 1847 CE – 1931 CE Xinhai Revolution Conflict · East Asia 1911 CE – 1912 CE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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