No. XLV (2014)
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David Urquhart’s Perceptions of the Eastern Question: The Affairs of Serbia

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  • Jelena Milojković Đurić
Jelena Milojković Đurić
M. G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Texas A and M University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC1445203M

Published 01.12.2014

Keywords

  • Eastern Question,
  • Ottoman Empire,
  • Serbia,
  • David Urquhart

How to Cite

Milojković Đurić, J. (2014). David Urquhart’s Perceptions of the Eastern Question: The Affairs of Serbia. Balcanica - Annual of the Institute for Balkan Studies, (XLV), 203–219. https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC1445203M

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Abstract

At the beginning of his diplomatic career in Constantinople in 1835, David Urquhart was instrumental in promoting the British cause by endorsing its political grand design and mercantile interests in Turkey, Greece, the Caucasian region,Crimea, Serbia and adjacent Balkan principalities. While observing the complexities of the Eastern Question, Urquhart recognized the underlying importance that Serbia had attained in the context of competing imperial interests in the Balkans. His engaged commentaries on the crucial changes in Serbian political discourse elucidated as well his understanding of Serbian history and culture past and present. Urquhart discerned a correspondence between Serbian political affairs and the inherent situation in the region of the Caucasus and Circassia.
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