Is it true that the spread of the ideas of Romantic Nationalism in the Balkans, together with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire made this region very explosive?

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The above statement is True.
The spread of the ideas of Romantic Nationalism in the Balkans, together with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, attempted to strengthen itself throughout the nineteenth century through modernisation and internal reforms, but with little success. European subject ethnicities here gradually rebelled and proclaimed independence. The Balkan people founded their claims for autonomy or political rights on nationality. They utilised history to demonstrate that they were previously autonomous but had since been enslaved by foreign powers. Thus the Balkan insurgent ethnic groups saw their conflicts as attempts to recover their long-lost freedom. The growth of romantic nationalism beliefs and the fall of the Ottoman Empire contributed to the Balkans' severe instability.

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