Another Russo-Turkish War*The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 was a war between the Russian Empire and its allied Balkan states, on the one hand, and the Ottoman Empire, on the other, as part of the Eastern Crisis.
The outbreak of the war was preceded by an upsurge of national consciousness in the Balkans. News of the brutality with which the Bosnian-Herzegovinian (1875) and April Uprisings in Bulgaria were suppressed caused sympathy in Europe and especially in Russia for the situation of Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Russia declared the goal of the war to be the freedom of the Orthodox Slavs from Turkish rule (expansion of the territory of independent Serbia, creation of an independent Bulgaria).
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