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I have always liked the history of the Balkans of the second half of the XIX and early XX century: however, I know really little of it, and have read more of it from websites and forums rather than actual books.

I have always liked as well the uniforms, equipment and armies of it, so when while as a substitute teacher and some children asked me to draw some soldiers firing at each other, I remembered some of the illustrations of old newspapers like Le Petit Journal and Figaro from the Balkan wars... and did a piece inspired of that. Done with markers in a scrap of paper, then took a photo.

Here, a Bulgarian soldier fighting some otomans.

The First Balkan War ( Bulgarian Балканска война, Greek: Α΄ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος, Serbian: Први балкански рат Prvi Balkanski rat, Turkish: Birinci Balkan Savaşı), lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and comprised actions of the Balkan league 8Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro) against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved rapid success.

As a result of the war, the allies captured and partitioned almost all remaining European territories of the Ottoman Empire. Ensuing events also led to the creation of an Independent Albania. Despite its success, Bulgaria was dissatisfied over the division of the spoils in Macedonia, which provoked the start of the Second Balkan War.

Description

I have always liked the history of the Balkans of the second half of the XIX and early XX century: however, I know really little of it, and have read more of it from websites and forums rather than actual books.

I have always liked as well the uniforms, equipment and armies of it, so when while as a substitute teacher and some children asked me to draw some soldiers firing at each other, I remembered some of the illustrations of old newspapers like Le Petit Journal and Figaro from the Balkan wars... and did a piece inspired of that. Done with markers in a scrap of paper, then took a photo.

Here, a Bulgarian soldier fighting some otomans.

The First Balkan War ( Bulgarian Балканска война, Greek: Α΄ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος, Serbian: Први балкански рат Prvi Balkanski rat, Turkish: Birinci Balkan Savaşı), lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and comprised actions of the Balkan league 8Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro) against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved rapid success.

As a result of the war, the allies captured and partitioned almost all remaining European territories of the Ottoman Empire. Ensuing events also led to the creation of an Independent Albania. Despite its success, Bulgaria was dissatisfied over the division of the spoils in Macedonia, which provoked the start of the Second Balkan War.