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The British Reporting in Newspapers on the Bosnian Uprising of 1831-1832

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  • Omer Merzić
    University of London
During the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire was starting to face its end, the Empire started to implement reforms. The need for these reforms was most-ly advocated by the different colonial powers, especially the British Empire. The general decaying situation in the Ottoman Empire, as well as the new charge for reforms, led to the creation of an unstable environment in the Empire. This instability led to numerous uprisings across the Empire during the 19th centu-ry. One of these uprisings was the Bosnian uprising of 1831 also known as the Great Bosnian Uprising. While the events of the Uprising are for the most part explored in historiography, the influence and perception of these events in the other empires are seldom explored. The aim of this paper is to explore the Brit-ish reporting in contemporary newspapers on the Bosnian uprising of 1831-1832. The importance of this topic lies in the fact that the newspapers helped form public perception and, thus, public opinion on certain questions in the Empires of the time. The foreign powers, especially the British Empire, were becoming more and more involved with Ottoman internal affairs. The beginning of these intrusions started at the beginning of the 19th century and slowly progressed un-til the Congress of Vienna, when it escalated. The culmination of this was during the early 20th century, and it came to the point where these empires decided the fate of the Ottoman Empire.

The British Reporting in Newspapers on the Bosnian Uprising of 1831-1832

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Abdula, S., & Murtezani, S. . (Eds.). (2025). The British Reporting in Newspapers on the Bosnian Uprising of 1831-1832. In The Balkans: History, Religion and Society: Vol. Research 5 (pp. 187-202). Idefe Publications. https://doi.org/10.5331/