Russia's Balkan Entanglements, 18061914
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 11, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521522502
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; History; History - General History; History: World; Russia; Southeast Europe; Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics; Europe - Baltic States; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Balkan Peninsula--Foreign relations--Russia; History / Europe / General; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); History-Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics; History-Europe - Baltic States
First sentence: During the eighteenth century, a period when its prime attention had of necessity to be directed toward events in Central and Western Europe, the Russian state nevertheless acquired extensive territories to the south and came to share with the Ottoman Empire control of the Black Sea.