01:510:381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Bulgarian Exarchate, Ethnolinguistics, Second Bulgarian Empire

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: European History Courses
• Course: 01:510:381
• Professor: Paul Hanebrink

Document Summary

Note: maps are not neutral things people write them because they have their idea of how the world looks/works. Competing state visions: the balkans 1878. When meeting in berlin discussed where there should be a. Bulgarian state: note: by the end of the 1800"s there are several small nation-states which had formerly been part of the ottoman empire. As the ottoman empire weakened internationally (economically, politically, etc. ) and externally compared to other states local christian leaders pushed for autonomy in these states. Economically underdeveloped/poor and small countries: ^ political leaders are ambitious though! Want to have an economic foundation to exist/protect themselves. Want to ensure their viability by enlarging them idea that for a state to be strong it has to be big (make states bigger!) They justify this by citing period of national greatness that existed in the past: idea of history in perception of these national leaders: Nations were glorious/strong and those kingdoms rivaled glory of byzantine empire.