(*) Otto von Bismarck prophetically quipped that "some damn thing" in this region was bound to spark conflict.
The creation of a League named for this region was orchestrated by Russia – with the help of leaders like Ivan Geshov – to pave over issues involving the separatist IMRO and help it gain warm-water ports. The Treaty of London ended a war named for this region by signing over all territory west of a line from Enos to Midia, as well as the sanjak of Novi Pazar, but failed to prevent the outbreak of a second "fratricidal war" named for this place that Nicholas II failed to arbitrate. (*) Otto von Bismarck prophetically quipped that "some damn thing" in this region was bound to spark conflict. Austria-Hungary allied with the Ottoman Empire in a war named for this region in 1912. For 10 points, what war-torn peninsula was home to the Black Hand that killed Franz Ferdinand?
The creation of a League named for this region was orchestrated by Russia – with the help of leaders like Ivan Geshov – to pave over issues involving the separatist IMRO and help it gain warm-water ports.
The Balkans [or Balkan peninsula; or Balkan League] &lt;WA, ContHist&gt;