Tag: History of the Balkans

Before the trenches of the Western Front and the tragedy of Sarajevo, there was 1912. The First Balkan War was not just a regional skirmish; it was a “curtain raiser” for global catastrophe. Driven by the secret “Gold Diplomacy” of France, the Pan-Slavic ambitions of Russia, and the existential dread of Austria-Hungary, an unholy alliance…