Though largely understudied to date, the regions in the western Balkans inhabite…

From 1912 to 1918 Bulgaria engaged in a prolonged conflict that began in victory…

Greece officially entered the Great War rather belatedly in June 1917, despite i…

Montenegro entered the First World War politically and militarily exhausted. The…

World War I afforded the first opportunity for modern Romania to participate in …

A short synthesis on Serbia's role and experience in the Great War encompasses s…

The idea for the unification of the Southern Slavs emerged in the 19th century a…

The Great War impacted the lives of almost every family in South East Europe. Un…

Though 100 years have elapsed since World War I, it has not enjoyed the due atte…

The centenary of the end of the Great War was celebrated in Romania as the “Cent…

The anniversary has reaffirmed the belief that the First World War still has a v…

The National Committee for Commemorating the 100th Anniversaries of World War I …

In pre-war South East Europe, both civilian and military powers focused on the c…

The article examines the main characteristics of commemorative processes which t…

This article offers a synthetic picture of the presence of World War I motifs in…

The Bulgarian historiography of World War One can be divided into three periods:…

Serbian historiography was analysed in light of Serbia’s historical position and…

The Serbian literature of the First World War, written by authors both from the …

While on the Western Front there were only limited territorial movements, the Ea…

The occupation of South East Europe 1915-1918 had a complex structure reflecting…

This article presents the main characteristics of organization and functioning o…

The First World War devastated the human workforce through death and invalidity …

The First World War devastated the human workforce through death and invalidity …

South East European societies faced several challenges in the post-war period. T…

Great War veterans both helped build Yugoslavia and aided in its collapse. Throu…

Not unlike its regional counterparts, the standards of press and journalism in S…

Nations of South East Europe had just ended a short but very intense period of w…

This article analyzes the treatment and living conditions of prisoners of war (P…

This article explores the nature of propaganda in those South East European stat…

This article offers a survey of the main currents in South East Europe in regard…

The main intention of this article is to chronologically present major events on…

This article presents the role of women in South East Europe during World War I …

The Balkan Wars were two sharp conflicts that heralded the onset of World War I.…

This article looks at the Black Hand from its origins to the demise of its leade…

Liberal Prime Minister Ionel Brătianu led the charge to transform Romania's fore…

For three decades Romania’s foreign policy depended almost entirely upon King Ca…

Chetnik is a common name for a member of the auxiliary or paramilitary units us…

Count Heinrich Karl Clam-Martinic was a German-speaking Bohemian high aristocrat…

King Constantine I, a brave army officer but rather controversial in his politic…

The Corfu Declaration was a formal agreement between the government-in-exile of …

Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria undoubtedly contributed to the modernization of the…

A Romanian politician, Dumitru Ionescu, commonly known as Take Ionescu, was cons…

Bishop Jeglič was one of the most prominent Slovenian Church figures in the era …

Peter I Karadjordjević was King of Serbia from 1903 to 1918, and King of Serbs, …

Situated above the Austro-Hungarian naval base in the Bay of Kotor, Mount Lovćen…

Macedonia was one of the main battlefields on the Balkan Front during World War …

Ioannis Metaxas was a conservative army officer and politician, who influenced d…

The Movement of National Defence was an organisation of Venizelist army officers…

The Treaty of Neuilly was signed on 27 November 1919 between Bulgaria and the Al…

Nikola Pašić was a Serbian/Yugoslav politician and statesman. He served twenty-t…

Kosta Pecanac was a prominent chetnik leader before the Great War and one of the…

Infantry General Racho Petrov is a controversial figure in Bulgarian history. He…

The Prochaska Affair was a diplomatic dispute between Austria-Hungary and Serbia…

Dr. Vasil Radoslavov was a Bulgarian politician and Prime Minister from 1913 to …

Although rape was not usually systematic, it occurred frequently on all fronts d…

The Russian Expeditionary Force in France and in Macedonia (“Brigades russes en …

Although sanjak usually means any one of many Ottoman administrative units, one …

Stephan Baron von Sarkotić was an Austro-Hungarian general who had already made …

The Scutari Crisis illustrates questions surrounding the creation of the new Alb…

During the First World War, governments, civilians and soldiers alike prized smo…

Ivan Šušteršič was a leading figure in the Slovenian and Habsburg political mili…

Greece’s Long Great War witnessed the mobilization of its young women as caretak…

Ante Trumbić was a Croat politician who played an instrumental role in the forma…

One of the most prominent and important statesmen in modern Greek history, Eleut…

Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich Prince of Wied, born to a German Protestant noble fam…

Nikola Zhekov was a Bulgarian infantry general, the Bulgarian minister of war fr…

Alliances were an important feature of the international system on the eve of Wo…

The First World War and its direct repercussions in the postwar period (revoluti…

The term "atrocity" describes an act of violence condemned by contemporaries as …

In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers …

The centenary events surrounding the First World War have produced a significant…

This article discusses how European museums – in particular, national war museum…

The commemorative period between 2014 and 2018 was marked globally by numerous e…

The First World War ushered in an unprecedented wave of commemorations. Mass dea…

The article discusses the role of the media in the complex international process…

During the First World War, Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats,…

During the entire war, warring powers used the “secret war” to try to break the …

The rapid spread of epidemics ravaged military personnel and civilians in and ou…

This article focuses on the extent to which imperialism contributed to the outbr…

By examining the origins, pathways, demographic impact and consequences for the …

The international crisis that began with the assassination of Archduke Franz Fer…

This article offers an overview of the progress of nationalism and the national …

After an initial wave of interest in 1914 and the immediate post-war period, int…

While World War I featured the largest armies ever assembled, it was also fought…

The First World War caused unprecedented disruption to societies across the glob…

The First World War marked the shift from a 19th century, relatively ad hoc mana…

This article addresses the scale of wartime population displacement in continent…

The conduct of warfare in 1914-1918 included extensive population resettlement i…

This article surveys the various movements toward social, national, and politica…

This article explores how the anticipation, reality, and memory of sacrifice inf…

This article offers an overview of peacemaking after the First World War from th…

Imperialism shaped almost every facet of international politics from 1898 to 191…

The Balkan Wars erupted in South Eastern Europe in October 1912. Fighting contin…

Military sources provide the primary statistics of war losses and casualties dur…

It may surprise us to learn that some sectors of the European public were in fav…

Female war reporters from belligerent and neutral countries were present in the …