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‘The Eastern Question has always been an international question’. Comment.

  • UPSC 1989
  • Nation-State System

The Eastern Question — what was to replace the decaying Ottoman Empire in south-eastern Europe — was never a bilateral dispute; it was international from its very origin to its final resolution.

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