In August 1914, National Geographic magazine published a map of Europe and the Balkan States, subsequently to be the scene of one of the bloodiest conflicts in history—World War I. Editor in ...

In the second Balkan war, in 1913, the Bulgarians, feeling cheated, fought the Serbs and the Greeks. The Romanians joined in, and the Ottomans got some territory back.

On Oct. 8, 1912, the tiny Kingdom of Montenegro declared war on a weakened Ottoman Empire, kicking off what is now known as the First Balkan War. Three other Balkan states in league with the ...

The UN resolution that ended the Kosovo war in mid-1999 called it part of Yugoslavia, not of Serbia. If Yugoslavia ceased to exist, Kosovo's ethnic Albanians would demand immediate independence.