1900 1994 1991 2004 2007 1992 1989 1973 - 1986 1957 1945 1938 - 1940 1949 1941 - 1943 1914 1917 - 1925 1912 - 1914

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1900
Imperial Europe is dominated by the Great Powers - Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Russia.

But by the dawn of the 20th Century, the Ottoman Empire is in decline, resulting in increasing instability in the Balkans.

Montenegro, Romania and Serbia are the latest to have won independence from the empire, while Bulgaria strains at the leash.

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