Balkan alliance: project on renewal of mediaval empires

• Author: Astrit Sahitaj
• Pages: 203-206

Vol. 3 No. 2

July 2017

ISSN 2410-3918

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Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

Balkan alliance- – project on renewal of mediaval empires

PhD (C.) Astrit Sahitaj

Abstract

In the fi rst decade of the twentieth century, the O oman Empire was faced with great

economic and political di culties. The Balkan monarchies would try to use this situation, and

the same would do the two antagonist parties, the Russian empire and the group of dualistic

monarchy. Those two groups were waiting for the most convenient moment to benefi t from

the territory of the European Turkey. Even the diplomacies of the Balkan monarchies had

intentions of annexing the Albanian and Macedonian territories.1 In those circumstances,

“…, a role with a specifi c importance had the continuous rebellions in Albania (Luarasi, 1973,

75)”. This situation was seen as an opportunity for Serbia, for the realization of the project of

Il a Garašanin for the renewal of the medieval state of Stefan Dušan. This project could be

realized easier by approximation of the politics of the Balkan monarchies. In these conditions,

an alliance between Serbia and Bulgaria was necessary, in order to create optimal conditions

for the approximation of politics between Serbia and Bulgaria.

This situation was seen as an opportunity even from the Great Powers and Slavic states,

which had their long-lasting dreams of expanding their territory. The Great Powers among

themselves were in antipodal positions. Each of them aimed at extending the hegemony in

Balkans. Main objective of this article is the analysis of the Balkan Alliance a er WWI.

Keywords: Balkan, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Bulgaria, WWI.

Introduction

The beginning of the twentieth century found the diplomacy divided in two

antagonist blocks. In such conditions, the tsarist Russia (The Russian Empire) was

interested to extend their hegemony in Balkans. They tried to realize this intention

through the Slavic states of Balkans. With the intervention of the Russian diplomacy,

the fi rst disruptions for the Serbo- Bulgarian deal began. The Serbo-Bulgarian

negotiations were always held with the acknowledgement of the Russian, Nikollaj

Hartvig in Belgrade and Alexander Nekludovit in Sofi a. It is understandable that

this happened with the approval of Tsar Nicholas II. In October of 1911 Cheskov and

Milovanovic created the preliminary conditions for a political and military alliance.

The fi rst negotiations for the alliance were held between Serbia and Bulgaria. They

were focused on having a deal for the inheritance of the Balkan states a er the ruins

of the O oman Empire. The created conditions dictated the deals among the Slavic-

Orthodox states. Albanians necessarily would face with “storm clouds” that would

bring bloodshed. The deal would “provide, among others the division of the Albanian

land in east and northeast” (Puto, 1978). This way, the lands in the north and west of

the Sharr mountains, where the vilayet of Kosovo and the Sanjak of Novi Pazar were

situated, would be annexed by Serbia, while Bulgaria would be allowed to annex the

territory in the east of the Rhodope mountains and the Struma River. According to

1    1912-1913,  , , 1960, .18.