Great Eastern Crisis
| Great Eastern Crisis (1875–1878) | |||||||||
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| Part of the rise of nationalism in the Ottoman Empire and of the Great Game | |||||||||
Serbian soldiers attacking the Ottoman army at Mramor, 1877 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Supported by: |
Imamate rebels Abkhazian rebels Supported by: | ||||||||
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| Strength | |||||||||
| 281,000 | |||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 30,000 killed, 90,000 died from wounds and diseases | |||||||||
| Rise of nationalism in the Balkans Nationalism under the Ottoman Empire |
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The Great Eastern Crisis of 1875–1878 began in the Ottoman Empire's administrative territories in the Balkan Peninsula in 1875, with the outbreak of several uprisings and wars that resulted in the intervention of international powers, and was ended with the Treaty of Berlin in July 1878.
The war is referred to differently in various languages of the peoples involved in it due to differing sociocultural backgrounds. In Serbo-Croatian and Turkish, the war is likewise referred to as Velika istočna kriza ("Great Eastern Crisis") and Şark Buhranı ("Eastern Crisis") respectively. However, the occasionally used Turkish name Ramazan Kararnamesi ("Decree of Ramadan") refers specifically to the sovereign default declared on 30 October 1875 in historiography while 93 Harbi ("War of 93") refers to the Russo-Turkish War (the year 1293 of the Islamic Rumi calendar corresponding to the year 1877 on the Gregorian calendar).