Одјеци Србије, Источног питања и балканских ратова у Шпанији (1876–1914)
Echoes of Serbia, Eastern Question and Balkan Wars in Spain (1876–1914)

Summary/Abstract: Spanish publicists, theorists, and journalists followed the process of the Eastern Question and the Balkan Wars with great interest. While they sought to criticize the pan-Slavic Russian solution to national problems in the Balkans in the second half of the late 19th century (1875-1878), during the Balkan Wars, they primarily emphasized Bulgaria as a model of perfect military organization, system, and state. They largely perceived the expulsion of the Ottoman Empire as the expulsion of Islamic rule from Spain in the Middle Ages. Quite a number of Spanish intellectuals favored the “Bulgarian” solution to Macedonia, which could be explained by the zealous following of the news about the German dynasty in Orthodox Bulgaria and the potential closeness of the Bulgarian court to Catholicism. Some of these intellectuals define the tendency towards mutual confrontations between Serbs, Bulgarians, and Greeks as the backwardness of civilization. However, the Spaniards did not know much about the Balkans until the First World War because only after 1914 did a large number of publications appear that dealt significantly with this topic (travelogues and reportages in the Balkans, written by Gaziel, Angela Graupera, Saturnino Ximenez and other war correspondents and publicists).

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