Answer:
The
vast territory lying between the Black sea and the Adriatic sea comprising the
modern states of Romania, Albania, Greece, Croatia, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Slovenia,
Serbia and Montenegro was known as the Balkans. All these states were once the
part of the Ottoman empire and were inhabited by people broadly known as Slavs.
The spread of the ideas of Romantic nationalism and the disintegration of
Ottoman empire made this region very explosive. The Balkans states were
fiercely jealous of each other and each hoped to gain more territory at the expense
of the others.
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