Great Eastern Crisis
The Great Eastern Crisis of 1875–1878 began in the Ottoman Empire's territories on the Balkan peninsula in 1875, with the outbreak of several uprisings and wars that resulted in the intervention of international powers, and was ended with the Treaty of Berlin in July 1878.
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| Part of the rise of nationalism under the Ottoman Empire and of the Great Game | |||||||||
Serbian soldiers attacking the Ottoman army at Mramor, 1877 | |||||||||
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| 281,000 | |||||||||
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| 30,000 killed, 90,000 died from wounds and diseases | |||||||||
| Events leading to World War I |
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It is also called Serbo-Croatian: Velika istočna kriza; Turkish: Şark Buhranı ("Eastern Crisis", for the crisis in general), Turkish: Ramazan Kararnamesi ("Decree of Ramadan", for the sovereign default declared on 30 October 1875) and Turkish: 93 Harbi ("War of 93", for the wars on the Balkan peninsula between 1877 and 1878, referring in particular to the Russo-Turkish War, the year 1293 on the Islamic Rumi calendar corresponding to the year 1877 on the Gregorian calendar).