Mediterranean Hegemony Road

At the end of the 19th century, as the Austro-Hungarian Empire continued to infiltrate Serbia, people of insight in Serbia believed that if Serbia did not expand into the Aegean Sea, it would sooner or later be annexed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Therefore, Serbia adopted a radical expansion policy, including propagating national separatism to various places, and a series of messy ideas, which also paved the way for the subsequent disintegration of Yugoslavia.

In addition to the Macedonia region, countries are also infiltrating other regions. The most famous ones are the "Greater Bulgarian Plan" and the "Greater Serbian Plan"; of course, the "Greater Greece Plan" and the "Gate Negro Plan" are also indispensable.

The Greater Bulgaria Project, a Bulgarian nationalist ideology aimed at restoring the largest frontier in Bulgarian history.

Of course, the Bulgarians were not stupid enough to really want to restore the largest territory in history. When it was time to give up, they chose to give up!

The range of targets set includes: the plains between the Danube and the Balkan Mountains, North and South Dobroga, Sofia, Pirot, Vranje, North Thrace, parts of East Thrace, Macedonia and other areas.

The main targets were all aimed at the Turks, and there was no foolishness to encircle Austria-Hungary, Greece and other countries, and even so, it was beyond the scope of Bulgaria's ability at that time.

The Greater Serbia plan is interesting. It is also Greater Serbia, a concept of national unity put forward by Serbian nationalists.

Well, the basic goal is to unify areas where Serbs are inhabited, and there are requirements for areas where Serbs are a minority.

This area is difficult to define, and advocates the creation of a larger Serbian state in the western Balkans in southeastern Europe.

The latter was even worse. At the end of the 19th century, when the power of the radicals expanded, the nation included the entire Yugoslav nation.

As far as the most basic goals are concerned, the regional area includes: Serbia, Montenegro (Montenegro), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia and so on.

According to the goals of the activists, the small Balkan region can no longer accommodate Serbia. Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria are all involved, and they are even interested in Moldova. (Not necessarily accurate, from Baidu, for reference only)

Of course, these activists are only a minority among the minority, and they are radicalism within radicalism, which can be understood as madness!

This is not a big deal, and there are Slavic peoples who are influenced by pan-lavism and openly advocate the unification of the world!

You read that right, after the establishment of Yugoslavia after World War I, some people advocated the unification of the Slavic nations of the world and the establishment of the Great Slavic Empire with the Serbs as the core! Even the great strategic idea of ​​unifying the Soviet Union has come out!

Well, just take it as a joke! What country doesn't have a few lunatics? In Serbia in that era, there were just more lunatics!

Blind nationalism without economic and military strength and international support can only have disastrous consequences. Greater Serbia eventually became the trigger for the outbreak of World War I!

The Greeks still have self-awareness. Perhaps the first "Greek-Turkish War" woke up the Greek nationalists. The Great Greek Plan was just a dream. They shouted twice, and when they felt tired, they stopped shouting!

The Negro plan of the gate, the establishment of Yugoslavia was realized for a time, but he belonged to the unified one, and it was completed anyway, right? Maybe I think this result is not so wonderful, and later became independent!

But all of this has undergone fundamental changes in this time and space, under Ferdinand's butterfly effect!

Of course, these plans still exist, but as soon as the "Great Serbia Plan" was announced, it died prematurely.

In the Balkan situation before 1892,

Basically the same as the parallel time and space, there is not much change, the most is that the Bulgarian government has built a little more church schools outside, and the scope is a little wider.

Since the establishment of the Bulgarian-Russian Alliance, history has turned a turning point here! First, Ferdinand provoked an arms race in the Balkans, and the economic crisis that followed was destructive, a little bit bigger!

Then, starting in 1893, due to financial reasons, the Greek and Serbian governments were forced to stop their expansion in Macedonia. After the Bulgarian War, Serbia directly shut down most Serbian schools and churches!

Time has entered 1895. Serbia, which was originally ambitious, is now licking its wounds and has no energy to come out to make a difference.

Now the most active is Negro (Montenegro), which is working hard to establish the kingdom of Montenegro!

George I of Greece was still hiding in the dark, looking for an opportunity to give the Ottoman Empire a sap, similar to Ferdinand's idea.

The two sides tacitly exported the revolution to the Ottoman Empire. Although Ferdinand lit a fire, if the Greek government did not cooperate, the Greeks in Turkey would never be so violent now.

Macedonians relied on Serbs before 1860, and then turned to Bulgarians. The main factor for this reason is the single-handed promotion of the Russian Empire.

The Russians led the Macedonians to move closer to Bulgaria in religion and diplomacy, and the attitude of the Russian Empire had a huge impact on all the people of the Balkans who believed in the Orthodox Church!

After the alliance between Russia and Bulgaria, this influence became more obvious, and the Orthodox faith areas in the Balkans were all moving closer to Bulgaria. Taking advantage of this advantage, Ferdinand's government accelerated its penetration into the Balkans.

The more difficult one is Romania. Watching the expansion of the Balkan countries, Carol I has nowhere to show, and can only watch the fun!

To the west are Hungary and Serbia, Beichuan is Russia’s Ukraine and Moldova, to the south is Bulgaria, and to the east is the Black Sea.

During the Bulgarian War, the Romanians were ready to come out and get a piece of the pie, but unfortunately they chose to support Serbia due to their relationship with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

But Serbia was defeated too fast, and the war was over before Romania had time to mobilize the whole country. There is no way who could call his northern neighbor the Russian Empire? And the Russian Empire is precisely the ally of Bulgaria, anyway Romanians dare not gamble!

More than 70% of the country's main troops were deployed on the front lines of Moldova and Ukraine. No matter how confident Carol I was in his ability to use troops, he did not think that a partial Romanian division could defeat Bulgaria.

Coupled with the unstable situation in Romania at that time, a new round of peasant uprisings may break out at any time, and Carol I finally chose to abandon the Serbs.

... (As for the domestic situation in the Ottomans, make up your mind! There are only four words: smoke everywhere!)