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Ottoman Empire

Sick man of Europe

19th Century
Ottoman Empire

By the mid-19th century, the Ottoman Empire was called the "sick man of Europe". Three suzerain states – the Principality of Serbia, Wallachia, and Moldavia – moved towards de jure independence during the 1860s and 1870s.


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