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21 unusual facts about Balkan Wars


1/38 Evzone Regiment

It was formed in 1913 after the Balkan Wars, as part of the 1st Infantry Division.

Anne Margrethe Strømsheim

He had taken part in World War I and the Balkan Wars as a medical volunteer and was convinced that sooner or later the Germans or Russians would attack Norway.

Bardarski Geran

In the village's centre, right next to the clock tower, there is a monument to a Soviet fighter plane crew that crashed in the vicinity in World War II, as well as a monument to the locals that perished in the Balkan Wars and World War I.

Belgrade Prophetologion

It disappeared during evacuation and retreat of the Serbian Army in the Balkan Wars in 1915.

Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church

As a result of the 1912-1913 Balkan Wars and the 1914-1918 First World War, many Bulgarians fled from the territories of present-day Greece, Republic of Macedonia and Turkey to what is now Bulgaria.

Cretan Anthem

The anthem never gained much popularity, since the Cretans viewed the Cretan State as a temporary measure; the Greek national anthem was the de facto unofficial anthem, and after Crete unilaterally declared its union with the Kingdom of Greece in 1908 (not formally recognized until 1913, after the Balkan Wars), the Greek national anthem was used officially as well.

Desiderius Orban

In 1912-13 he was called up again for military service in the Balkan Wars.

Education in Albania

The unsettled political conditions caused by the Balkan Wars and by World War I hindered the development of a unified education system.

Georgi Tenev

It exhibited 200 photo reproductions of commemorative plaques with the names of Bulgarian soldiers and officers having died in the two Balkan Wars and World War I (1912–1913).

Golema Rakovitsa

During the Balkan Wars in 1912 a man from Rakovitsa was a member of the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps.

Indira Naidoo

In 1997, Naidoo was headhunted to present SBS News' inaugural Late News, which she hosted for three years, during which she covered the independence struggle in East Timor, the coups in Fiji and the Balkans war in Kosovo.

Kaynardzha

After the Balkan Wars, it was ceded by the Kingdom of Bulgaria to the Kingdom of Romania along with all of Southern Dobruja; as part of the interwar Durostor County, it was known as Cainargeaua Mică, a translation and adaptation of the older Ottoman Turkish name, Küçük Kaynarca ("small spa place").

Kovachevtsi, Pernik Province

A notable native is Bulgarian Communist leader Georgi Dimitrov (1882–1949), whose parents were refugees from the Pirin region, which was left under Ottoman rule until the Balkan Wars.

Patalenitsa

The village has its own village hall, the present building of which dates to 1970, a cultural centre (chitalishte) established in 1909, and a monument to the locals who perished as Bulgarian Army soldiers in the Balkan Wars and World War I.

Pelitköy

Most of Pelitköy's people moved to Lesbos (Greece) after the Balkan Wars or in the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the early 1920s.

Poibrene

During the wars for National Unification, the two Balkan Wars and the First World War, Poibrene gave 176 killed and 18 missing soldiers.

Report of the International Commission on the Balkan Wars

The report speaks of the numerous violations of international conventions and war crimes committed during the Balkan Wars.

Sofia Theological Seminary

During the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and the First World War (1914-1918) the seminary complex was used as a wartime hospital, and the Agrarianist rule of 1920-1923 opened an agricultural faculty inside.

The Lady of the Shroud

There Rupert tries to win the trust of the conservative mountaineer population by using his fortune to buy them modern arms (from a South American country that has unexpectedly found itself at peace) for their fight against Turkish invasion (the story was written shortly before the Balkan Wars).

Turks in Montenegro

However, in the early 1900s, after the Ottomans were defeated in the Balkan Wars, the majority of Turks along with other Muslims living in the region left their homes and migrated to Turkey.

Žabljak

However, almost all the original buildings were destroyed during the Balkan Wars.


Jaroslav Věšín

), he became famous with his masterpieces of battle painting: Manoeuvres (series began in 1899 and lasted until the Balkan Wars, The Samara flag (1911), Onslaught (or Bayonet charge, 1913), The Turkish retreat at Lüleburgaz (1913), Lüleburgaz-Çatalca (1913) and a series of sketches and complete works on the siege of Edirne, among which Bibouac in front of Edirne (1913), Resting after 13 March 1913 (1913), etc.

Konstantinos Tsiklitiras

His career came to a halt in 1913 when he volunteered to fight in the Balkan Wars and fought at the Battle of Bizani, although he could avoid conscription he insisted on fighting for his country.

Panagiotis Demestichas

He participated in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13, rising to company commander by the end of the First Balkan War, a position he held throughout the Second Balkan War as well.

Pavlos Melas

After his death, Greek efforts became more intense, resulting in the interception of Bulgarian Komitadji efforts, especially in West and Central Macedonia, which joined Greece after the Balkan Wars.

Pilar Rahola

From 1987 to 1990, Rahola was director of the Catalan publishing house Pòrtic, and as a journalist, she was involved in covering the Eritrean-Ethiopian War, the Balkan Wars, the Gulf War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı

He split with the CUP in 1913, blaming them deeply for the Ottoman defeat in the Balkan Wars and the loss of the Balkans for Turkey, and also vehemently opposed Turkey's entry into the First World War.