Congress of Berlin
About the Congress of Berlin
Bismarck hosted the powers revising San Stefano, clipping Big Bulgaria, the Russian creation, back to a small principality, Bosnia occupied by Austria, Britain got Cyprus. Disraeli returned home claiming peace with honour. The Balkan peoples felt cheated, seeds of 1912 to 1913 wars and 1914. Bulgaria never forgave, Serbia never forgot, Bosnia Herzegovina annexation crisis 1908 flowed directly.
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