73.2 Russo-Turkish War 1877-78
A History of Europe, Key Battles
Carl Rylett
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🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In April 1876 news spread across Europe of appalling atrocities being committed in Bulgaria, by Turks against local uprisings. These occurred soon after similar events elsewhere in the Balkans region – in Bosnia and Serbia. The strongest reaction came from Russia where widespread sympathy for their fellow Slavs led to a nationwide surge in patriotism
A new sultan in Constantinople, Abdul Hamid II, rejects any concessions, leading to war
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Picture - The Batak massacre carried out by Ottoman irregular troops in Bulgaria in 1876
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| 1:08.1 | Ge Battles podcast, the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 to 1878, part 2 of 3. |
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| 1:35.3 | Thank you so much. In April 1876, news spread across Europe of appalling atrocities being committed in Bulgaria |
| 2:08.6 | by Turks against a local uprising. |
| 2:11.6 | Thanks to the invention of the Telegraph, war correspondents working on the ground could now get a report |
| 2:18.2 | immediately to the newspaper owners, and the rapid expansion of democracy and mass media |
| 2:23.4 | meant their reports had the potential to have an immediate effect on public opinion, and consequently |
| 2:29.2 | the decisions of their governments. Particular events tended to attract public attention, and one of those was the infamous |
| 2:37.3 | massacre of Batak, a small town in southwest Bulgaria, then a province of the Ottoman Empire. |
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