Word: balkanize
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Born on the Island of Hydra in 1855, he adopted a naval career in his earliest youth, and rose to the distinction of twice defeating the Turkish fleet during the Balkan War of 1912-13. An adherent of Diplomat Venizelos, he shared the fortunes of that statesman until...
...Balkan crises lead to threats, overt acts, wars. During the past month a once healthy-looming crisis blew up, blew over, scarcely titillated the news cables of the world. Bulgarian comitadjis, "irregulars" (near-bandits), staged an impromptu raid across the Jugoslav frontier. Soon a collective note ("ultimatum") was despatched by Jugoslavia, Rumania and Greece demanding that Bulgaria disband and disperse her comitadjis. Though these highly irregular gentry are not easily to be disbanded-even by the government to which they owe nominal allegiance-the Bulgarian Foreign Office drafted and despatched a sufficiently conciliatory reply to Jugoslavia, Rumania and Greece last...
...shows how these factors were at work since 1870 in Europe. He sketches the formation of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente. He goes deeper into such specific causes for unrest as Morocco, the annexation of Bosnia, Tripoli, the Bagdad Railway, Persia, the Far East, and the Balkan wars...
...sheerest sadism prevails throughout typical Balkan police stations. . . . Brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, children and parents: they are flogged by the police before one another's eyes upon the least pretense of obtaining information...
...Crown of Lies. The supply of Balkan kingdom plays seems limitless, and as long as we must have them reproduced it is just as well that there are people like Pola Negri to perform. In this one she is a girl in a Manhattan theatrical boarding house who abruptly finds herself Queen of Sylvania...