Balkan Wars

The Balkan Wars were two wars in South-eastern Europe in 1912-1913 in the course of which the Balkan League (Bulgaria, Montenegro, Greece, and Serbia) first conquered Ottoman-held Macedonia and most of Thrace and then fell out of fellowship over the division of the spoils, Bulgaria suffering defeat at the hands of her former allies and losing much of what she had been promised in the initial partition scheme.

Other wars in the Balkans

There have been wars in the Balkans since before the start of recorded history. Since the area has been referred to as the Balkans, notable conflicts have included:

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• The long conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• The Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885)
• The Balkan campaigns of World War I (1914–1918)
• The Balkan campaigns of World War II (1940–1945)
• The Yugoslav wars (1991–1995)
• The Kosovo War (1996–1999)