Serbia

10,887 square kilometers of territory, lying in the heart of the Balkans, has been a powder keg of conflict since the fourteenth century. For it is this place where two competing nationalisms, Albanian and Serbian, simmered for centuries until eventually boiling over in 1998 with the Kosovo War. The ‘Kosovo question’, as referred to by scholars, examines what level of statehood or control should ultimately be consigned to the territory of Kosovo. Serbian intellectuals in the late 20th century and

it’s own country because some of the Bosnian land encompassed some of Serbia, the Serbs began bombing Bosnian cities and would murder Bosnian citizens in the cities that were in the land the two countries “shared.” The Serbs began encroaching on Bosnian territory, they were led to believe that the Bosnians were the enemy, televised to the Serbs was propaganda claiming that the Bosnian Muslims were an enemy and a threat to Serbia, they were instilled with paranoia ("Combat

lawlessness with Janissaries literally getting away with murder. The first national awakening of the Balkan people began with, the national revolt in 1804 by Serbia, started mainly by middle class merchants. The Serbian revolution began with the breakdown of the Ottoman system, Janissaries were beginning to fight back against the system they began to defy the pasha. This led to lawlessness and the arming of Serb peasants. The revolution nonetheless was more of an uprising than a revolution, its intent

1.The history of Serbia is a non-fiction history book published in 1917, during the Great war. A war that was started in the Balkans from a Serbian national Yugoslav nationalist. As the Balkans was considered the powder keg of Europe at the time.The Author was British historian H.W.V. Temperley who fought in Great War in Turkey before publishing this work, so it is likely that he had some curiosity to the people who ended up causing at that time the deadliest war in history. Being a historian of

The case presented was in response to the independent declaration of liberation by the government of Kosovo. A demand for an advisory opinion was requested from the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In order to provide this advisory opinion, it should be determined if the International Court of Justice has the jurisdiction in the case being presented. Even though the leading paragraph of Article 96 allows for an advisory opinion to be requested when it comes to “any legal question, the ICJ has

of crushing it. As tensions mounted, Milosevic launched a Serbian crusade, taking over the sovereign republics of Vojvodina and Montenegro. According to Percy (1995), the republic of Kosovo, full of Albanians, put up a fight but eventually bowed to Serbia through military force. With regard to Slovenia and Croatia, the two republics managed to hold their ground against Milosevic and declared independence in 1991. While

Armenian Genocide: By the Spring of 1915, The Ottoman Empire’s very existence was in danger. They faced a war on three fronts during World War One : Anglo-Indian troops to the South in the Levant, The Russians to east in the Caucasus, who were ahead after their victory in Sarıkamış, And the British and French to the West, who mounted naval attacks against the Dardanelles. It was clear that the Empire was in bad shape. With the situation so grave, the Ottomans began mobilizing their population for

administered by Austria-Hungary since 1878. Serbia wanted to unite with Bosnia and Herzegovina to form a large Serbian kingdom. In opposition, Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Balkans. Austria-Hungary teased Russia with a trade-off, which promised that if Russia accepted the annexation, Austria-Hungary would open the Dardanelles to Russian warships. Instead, Austria-Hungary proceeded with counteraction. The annexation left both Serbia and Russia outraged. Germany, too, demanded

took its independence in 17 February 2008, although it’s not known by all the countries in the world. It is in the middle of Balkan and it is bordered by the Republic of Macedonia and Albania to the south, Montenegro to the west, and territory of Serbia to the north and east. Kosovo is a very small country with only 2 Million people . Its capital city is called Pristina, a very alive part of Kosovo unlike the other cities where you can find an organized environment and quiet people. They have 6 official

Michael Braverman 437848 msb4m7@mail.missouri.edu German Civilization 2320 Germany Expansionism Leading Towards World War I The Second Reich can be described as the period of German history when all of the previously fragmented German states became unified, excluding Austria, under the reign of Otto von Bismark. He led Germany to economic growth, rapid industrialization, and to become a powerful political force in Europe. However, Bismark’s reign only accounts for half of the Second Reich, the