 Revolution was running in parallel with the Napoleonic Wars.Process of Decline of the Ottoman Empire will continue until the end of First Balkan War in 1913 with the gradual reconquest of the Balkan peninsula by newly independent states and southward retreat of Ottoman Empire.In 1882 philosopher and senator Ángel Pulido is writing how one Sephardic merchant at the market in Belgrade told him ""I am not Spanish from there [Spain], but Spanish from the East.""