FOR many years preceding 1914 the international scene was dominated by the so-called Eastern Question--the question of what should be done to reform the Ottoman Empire, or (the real rub) to distribute ...
A new book examines the 19th-century “Eastern Question” that wracked the brains of European statesmen when thinking about the Middle East, writes David Tresilian Anyone who studied European history at ...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- "The Eastern Question" was the name given in the 19th century to the threat posed to European stability by the extensive but tottering Ottoman Empire. Much has changed ...