Balcanii în preajma marelui război
The Balkans at the Daybreak of the Great War

Summary/Abstract: The national and liberation movements on the Balkans begins at the first decade of XIX Century, from the First Serbian Uprising, with more or less intensity through XIX Century, followed by direct interventions of Great Powers, Austro-Hungarian Kingdom ( Habzburg Monarchy) and Russia. The conditions on the Balkans in the beggining of XX Century was tensed for the relationship between Balkan states as much as because of their aspirations for teritorial expansion and national union, followe by active presence of interesed power- states. Balkan wars that made an end of Turkish presence on the Balkans indicated the outbreak of World War I. The representations on the Balkans in English and American travelogues were supporting the image of mined, chaotic and divided Balkan Peninsula. Begining with shaping the image of national hatred in XIX Century, travellers continue with this trend between two world wars. Again, the representation of peninsula of hatred, powder box, haunted land was present during the nineties of twentieth Century. In travelogues of Frank Fox, Jackel Blair, Moris Barring, Williams Le Queux and numerous others, through the discourse of mined Balkan, the First World War was foreshadowed.

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