always welcome to my channel, your trusted meme teacher, how are you, as always, turn off the torches please, I promise I'll upload the video of the succession, a little more time by the way, well, let's not lose the habit and we [ __ ] a little on the survey again, democracy simply does not work meanwhile we see the topic of the day the Balkan wars, those of the early 20th century and not the one of the 90s, I found it interesting not a little place where there is always rice pica, territorial changes and where the powers are always keeping an eye on them so that they don't make any [ __ ] these wars in particular are temporarily short but with many open fronts stopping at the specific combats would be crazy so let's see a general overview of what happened, what moves there were, roughly speaking, and well, now it is well understood what this is about, if you are interested, I invite you to make yourself comfortable and take some good mates because without further ado, we begin [Music] this event takes place as Its name indicates it in the Balkan Peninsula for those in the background, the eastern piece of land that is next to the boot, a place that the Ottoman Empire had controlled for a long time, extending from Asia to Europe, the marrow of the conqueror, however, precisely in this area, nobody liked it throughout the 19th century, some territories had become independent and others had obtained the status of principality, there were also those who had no recognition whatsoever, many of these territories had their own identity, culture and even religion distinct from that of their conquerors, so inspired by the growing nationalism that united European blood in those years, a good number of insurgencies began to occur, the most important being that of Bosnia in 1875 with which the anger exploded and Serbia would begin what is known as the Turkish Serbian war. I am going to my destiny and I am going to win but I had nothing home quickly began to lose the conflict itself. In the meantime, war crimes by the Turks against Slavic civilians came to light, which also caused the uprising of the Romanians. Bulgarians and Montenegro even so things seemed to be going very badly for the Balkans until you can not defeat me I know in 1877 Russia gets involved in the conflict in what is known as the Russo- Turkish War or Eastern War, screwing the Ottomans and forcing them to retreat. It turns out that the big guy wanted to expand his influence in the Balkans so he signed a secret pact with Austro-Hungary. The king is depending on how things turn out to share some piece of the cake in exchange for not sticking his nose into the matter. It was regulated. The Turks were not up to the task, but to prevent things from getting worse, the other powers called for an end to the conflict and for peace to be negotiated, achieving the signing of San Stefano, later revised and made effective by the Berlin Congress in 1878. In short, all these states obtain their definitive independence, Austro-Hungary keeps Bosnia and Russia not only expands its influence in the Balkans but It keeps Bessarabia, don't mess with the law among other provisions, of course, however, these conditions were not liked at all by those involved, the Ottoman Empire was still very present on the European side, the new states had not acquired all the territory they had intended and Bessarabia was a region that Romania wanted, whose acquisition by Russia made the former move away a little from its expected influence, I'm going to eat it, I'll allow it in a lot, with this disagreement it was obvious that sooner or later a new opportunity would be found to achieve something more and this took place after the war and there is the Turkish one where in a matter of a year Italy would defeat the Ottomans and take Lydia and the Dodecanese from them, um, the Ottoman Empire demonstrated its fragility, the beginning of the new century was a reflection of its decline, the revolution of the Young Turks, the fever of the Balkan states reflected in the Bosnian crisis, uprisings in Albania, everyone was breaking the Ottomans' mandarin, the opportunity had presented itself, a strip, that's how in a super spontaneous way and to acquire those territories that had been pending the Balkan League was forged in 1902 made up of Bulgaria Serbia who can handle it but is scarier its older brother Montenegro who doesn't do much but always the spicy one oh and Greece who nobody wants in the group but is there because he has a car in this case naval fleet poor Greece remember people each subscription is one more friend for Greece and if you don't like to subscribe maybe half of those who watch my videos don't subscribe I would be very excited it would be great I love you anyway with all the [ __ ] that the Ottoman Empire was doing it was a matter of time before the excuse presented itself and they didn't try very hard because after the murder of 150 Christians in Qoqani on October 8 1912 Montenegro would act as bait by declaring war on the Turks and allowing that through its alliance the other states would enter headfirst and thus starting the first Balkan War enough of drilling neighbors of the orto then on one side we had the allies whose logistics were supported by russia and italy and on the other we had the ottoman empire which in theory was supported logistically by austro hungary and germany had a lot of power in internal decisions from the start the war had some months of fierce fighting where although there were some comings and goings serbia was not easy at all bulgaria had demonstrated great military capacity and although greece was the one that had fared the worst due to mismanagement of its units and delays in the mobilization of its fleet managed to fulfill its role which was to entertain the turks and prevent them from being reinforced by sea the ottoman empire was very exposed and after few battles began to lose ground allowing a relentless allied advance towards constantinople the reasons for this defeat were very varied on the one hand there was a great politicization of the armed forces a devastating internal crisis the logistics were extremely deficient the terrain did not help and sultan hamid second had made continuous mistakes due to paranoia of possible coups that only weakened to its axis and well with this in summary the allies made love to the Ottomans again the Balkans were like lighting a cigarette inside a gas tank any false move and the great war exploded prematurely so the main powers entered the scene calling for negotiations before the allies reached the Ottoman capital no idiot something interesting in the matter were the pieces that these supposedly unrelated powers moved on the table everything was clear but behind the scenes there were strange things Russia fully supported the Balkans to maintain its influence and screw Austria for its part fully supported the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance of power and not endanger its access to the Adriatic Sea France wanted peace because it was not ready to jump for Russia in case it got into the war United Kingdom - said it wanted to maintain Ottoman integrity but secretly incited maneuvers such as the previous inclusion of Greece in the league in order to counteract Russian influence and Germany played both sides despite being an ally of the Ottomans and in fact being very involved in the internal affairs of the country there had been more for a while now plays to replace the Turks with a Bulgaria better prepared and efficient in betting, that's not how they get involved, they all grab the ears of those involved and they sign the Treaty of London on May 30, 1903 where among the most important things it would be determined that the entire European territory of the Ottoman Empire west of the line between them and a half would be ceded to the Balkans with the exception of Albania whose borders would be defined by the powers and well for Greece that would obtain the island of Crete apart from the fact that nobody liked a bit about Albania the powers did not define who would keep what thing they said well all these of you fix how you divide it up and the thing is that supposedly it had been arranged in advance that a part of Macedonia was going to remain for Bulgaria but de facto it had remained in Serbian hands seeing this and as I was already thinking of not giving a damn Serbia signed an alliance with Greece which had another part of Macedonia this even before the Treaty of London in case Bulgaria played dumb [Applause] the Bulgarians responded and since they were the strongest they were screwed and declared war on both Serbia and Greece only a month after the signing of the treaty after which Montenegro would respond with a declaration of war in favor of the Allies thus starting the Second Balkan War before attacking them and tearing us to pieces like a group of maniacs why don't we open the bag first and see what's inside maybe it's not worth fighting Bulgaria felt like the holy papaya the last Coca Cola in the desert in the words of its leaders the Prussia of the Balkans so they thought they were ready to break everyone's mother but they forgot someone the quiet one in the room the one who does nothing but there he is Romania Romania wanted the southern region of Do Bruja for a long time where there was a percentage of Romanians and which was in vulgar hands so seeing as they were fully concentrated on a broad front the Roman army began to advance relentlessly and almost without resistance through the neglected rearguard taking city after city on July 18 they lost the 20th Bradshaw the 23rd Brass of penalty and the 25th of the free isolating the city of Vidin and getting dangerously close to Sofia the capital of Bulgaria rebollo his division to the point of rubble but this does not stop here apart from having taken advantage of the bus he played a re play by sending diplomatic delegations to the other powers to warn them that they wanted nothing more than what they had come to look for and that they did not intend to endanger either the Bulgarian sovereignty or the well-being of its citizens but finally this second war would have a last super random participant considering the context that would also put the Balkan Prussia in check the Ottoman Empire hurt by their previous defeat said well they screwed me up but he did too so I'm going to help them and scratched some of everything that I lost the enemy of my enemy is my friend everything is everything an honor garbage Bulgaria seeing the ugly things decided to abandon the initial objective calling a ceasefire to which Greece and Serbia as they were advancing and had turned the tables turned deaf ears and had no intention of stopping they would also ask Russia to arbitrate to put an end to the matter however since Bulgaria was pro German they would turn their backs on it and act like a complete fool leaving it to its fate which would increase Russophobia in the country the gods of Olympus have abandoned me so badly off it had been left vulgar since during the Romanian invasion they not only had not had a single casualty in combat but even their air force would fly over the capital but not bombing it but dropping thousands of propaganda leaflets and reconnaissance photos keeping their word not to cause destruction or unnecessary deaths and this event becoming the first air invasion of a capital finally the Roman forces would reach the outskirts of Sofia but without entering but staying there at outskirts in act of presence as well as or Vladimir I have a kick in the ass for you with your name go down receive it and in the end with everything to lose for Bulgaria it would be Romania itself who would stop what could have been a massacre agreeing without having to invade the capital the session of the region that so longed for offering in exchange to call those involved to negotiations in Bucharest its own capital and even official moderator in the same since it truly had no other intentions than the intended region and they were not on anyone's side yes with the Ottoman Empire that manages apart this would not enter nor in fart in Romania destroy but just in this way we arrive at August 10 where the Treaty of Bucharest is signed with the presence of all those involved except the Ottomans as we said where Bulgaria would lose most of the territories it had obtained in the First World War and later on September 29 would sign separately the Treaty of Constantinople where it was decided among other clauses that the Ottomans would see the port of des from behind and the Bulgarians a few cities and their surrounding territories neither this treaty nor the previous ones satisfied any of those involved or the powers that were involved which contributed even more to the worsening of tensions and that ultimately in the short term would lead to the Sarajevo attack the excuse for the First World War ignoring of course all the other issues that make up that event but that in the end have nothing to do with today's video is it a sad ending or a happy ending it is an ending and more is good what did you think of the subject there is no doubt that the Balkans were are and always will be a powder keg proof of this have been the continuous conflicts and territorial changes that they suffered in all the following years in addition to the obvious resentment and anger between neighbors that time has not managed to erase completely let's not be like the Balkans anyway I hope you liked it if so do not forget to give me a like subscribe and activate the bell to motivate me to continue putting my claws into this content also do not forget to stop by through my social networks and the album that will be there below in the description and now without further loading I hope you have a good week, that you have a good time, that you pass your exams 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