In foreign policy, Abdülaziz turned to the Russian Empire for friendship, as turmoil in the Balkan provinces continued.

In 1875, the Herzegovinian rebellion was the beginning of further unrest in the Balkan provinces.

In the mid 3rd century, the Bastarnae were part of a Gothic-led grand coalition of lower Danube tribes which inflicted immense damage on the Balkan provinces of the Roman empire in a series of massive invasions.

After he defeated them in the Battle of Lake Benacus, he was finally able to take care of the invasions in the Balkan provinces.

On the other hand, the wealthier Greeks of Constantinople, and also the peoples of the Balkan and Italian provinces, strongly opposed iconoclasm.

By 1541, the entire Balkan peninsula and most of Hungary became Ottoman provinces.

Suleiman's conquests had brought under the control of the Empire the major Muslim cities ( Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Baghdad ), many Balkan provinces ( reaching present day Croatia and Austria ), and most of North Africa.

Turkmenistan is divided into five provinces welayatlar ( singular – welayat ): Ahal Province ( Aşgabat ), Balkan Province ( Balkanabat, formerly Nebitdag ), Daşoguz Province ( formerly Tashauz ), Lebap Province ( formerly Charjou Province ) ( Turkmenabat, formerly Charjou ), Mary Province

Later it became the capital of all the Greek provinces of the Roman Empire due to the city's importance in the Balkan peninsula.

After he defeated them in the Battle of Lake Benacus, he was finally able to take care of the invasions in the Balkan provinces.

They marched north and plunder the defenseless Balkan provinces ( including Thrace, Scythia, Moesia, Dacia and Illyricum ).

At war with Persia, paying extremely high tribute to the Avars, and the Balkan provinces thoroughly devastated by the Slavs, Maurice's situation was tumultuous at best.

The Slavs, having pillaged the Byzantine Balkan provinces for decades, probably began settling the land from the 580s on.

The Hungarians, led by Stephen II, then invaded Byzantium's Balkan provinces in 1127, with hostilities lasting until 1129 ; however, an alternative chronology has been suggested with the Hungarian attack and Byzantine retaliation taking place in 1125 with a renewal of hostilities in 1126.

The Eastern Roman Empire attempted to maintain control of the Balkan provinces, despite a thinly-spread imperial army with local militias and an extensive re-fortification of the Danubian limes.

Timarli Sipahis of Anatolia and Timarli Sipahis of Rumeli ( Balkan ) provinces had employed different equipments and tactics.

So well were these troops organized that they were able to hold their own against rebellious Janissaries in the Balkan provinces such as the Sanjak of Smederevo against its appointed Vizier Hadži Mustafa Pasha, where disaffected governors made no scruple of attempting to make use of them against the reforming sultan.

Most of the Greek population of the region was exchanged with Bulgarians from the Greek provinces of Macedonia and Thrace in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars and World War I.

Tensions among the Balkan states over their rival aspirations to the provinces of Ottoman-controlled Rumelia, namely Eastern Rumelia, Thrace and Macedonia, subsided somewhat following intervention by the Great Powers in the mid-19th century, aimed at securing both more complete protection for the provinces ' Christian majority and protection of the status quo.

During the First Balkan War, the Balkan League ( Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria ) succeeded in driving out the Ottoman Empire from its European provinces ( Albania, Macedonia, Sandžak and Thrace ), leaving the Ottomans with only the Çatalca and Gallipoli peninsulas.

More recently, as former axioms of ethnogenesis have shifted, the historian Walter Pohl noted that " centuries after the fall of the Balkan provinces, a pastoral Latin-Roman tradition served as the point of departure for a Valachian-Roman ethnogenesis.

Scholars who support the immigrationist theory ( in Romanian scholarship also known as " Roesler's theory ") propose that the Romanians descended from the Romanized inhabitants of the provinces in the Balkan Peninsula south of the Danube, which were under direct Roman rule for more than half a millennium.

The French however failed to achieve British participation in a common intervention to stop the Balkan conflict.

This period of unemployment was the only one of his life ; however, he employed himself as best he could, including recovering from his Balkan experiences and finishing up his Balkan studies.

Following this victory however, the old differences between the allies re-emerged over the division of the spoils, particularly Macedonia, leading to the effective break-up of the League, and soon after, on 16 June 1913, Bulgaria attacked her erstwhile allies, beginning the Second Balkan War.

The entry of Greece in the League however was essential for the allies, since Greece, alone among the Balkan states in possessing a major fleet, could preclude the mass transfer of Ottoman reinforcements from Asia directly into Europe by sea.

The French however failed to achieve British participation in a common intervention to stop the upcoming Balkan conflict.

The Balkan Hound has been a permanent fixture in the Balkans throughout history with the first standard written for the breed in 1924 ; however, it was not until 1940 that the Fédération Cynologique Internationale accepted the standard which had been accepted elsewhere.

The First Balkan War, however, erupted before a final settlement could be worked out.

The French however failed to achieve British participation in a common intervention to stop the Balkan conflict.

As such, it was long used in Greek, Turkish and the Slavic languages to describe the lands of that empire ; however, following the conquest of Anatolia by the Ottoman Empire and the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmet II, it was applied to the southern Balkan regions of the Ottoman Empire, which remained primarily Christian.

Greek claims to Preveza remained in force, however, and would come to the fore again in the Balkan Wars three decades later.

These populations also differ on plumage, with the Balearic, North African and Cyprus races having yellower males, and the Balkan type having deep purple-pink males ; this however merely reflects the differing anthocyanin content of the cones they feed on, as these pigments are transferred to the feathers.

It should however be recognised that the Great Powers ( themselves divided ) were dealing with the realities of a war situation in which very few majority-Albanian areas had not been already occupied by the Balkan League powers.

In June 1913, however, the Second Balkan War broke out between the Balkan Allies.

Suleyman's imperious character, however, turned his Balkan vassals against him.

The Balkan Wars in 1912 / 1913, however, quickly made such a policy illusory.

The Tatar raids and the series of mediocre rulers after Ivan Asen II, however, reduced Bulgaria to a narrow strip of land between the Balkan mountains and the Danube at the end of the 13th century.

This, however, would require the union of several Balkan states and territory which was part of Austria-Hungary.

He resigned however from this duty to rejoin the army in the Balkan Wars.

His friendliness for Russia did not, however, prevent him from strengthening the position of Austria as against Russia in the Balkan Peninsula by the establishment later of a closer political and commercial understanding with Serbia and Romania.

This was followed by Romanian cessation of hostilities, however the Balkan State declared war on Central Powers again on November 10, 1918.

Prior to the Balkan Wars, Vojnović wrote plays that showed great pride in his origins, however, that would not augur well during World War I when his country got invaded.