The most serious source of nationalist tension in South-Eastern Europe after 1871 was in the area called ____.

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The most serious source of nationalist tension in South-Eastern Europe after 1871 was in the area called the Balkans.
The Balkans was a region of ethnic and geographic diversity. The people that lived in various regions of the Balkans were known as Slavs and claimed their nationalism based on long-lost independence. The Balkans were under the Ottoman Empire's control in the nineteenth century. It was marked by internal conflicts between the Slavic states, who each wanted more territory from the other. After the Ottomans left, this area became the bone of contention between many big nations like Russia, Germany, Britain and Austria. All of them wanted to assert their power over the region.

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