Greek Independence, Treaty of London, 1830. From Indepenence to World War I. 1. Serbia declared war in 1876 and rebellion spread to Bulgarians. Russia invaded in the Spring of 1877. Unresolved problems and the Road to World War I. a.
Turkey looks on dismayed.
For a sense of nationalist hostility of Serbs against Austria, See War Fever in Serbia. Unresolved nationalist claims of the new Balkan States backed by the Russians led to the First Balkan War, October-December 1912. Not initially hostile to Turks, but when the Young Turk revolutionaries pushed Ottomanization, those in Kossovo revolted on behalf of autonomy. In the wake of the Turkish collapse in the First Balkan War, Albania declared independence, while Kossovo was occupied by the Serbs. This photo shows him and his wife minutes before they were shot by a Serb nationalist who represented Serb interests that feared the South Slav problem would be solved within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.