In 1875, a peasant revolt in Herzegovina ignited a war that reshaped the Balkans
When local peasants in Herzegovina refused to pay crushing taxes to their Ottoman overlords in 1875, they sparked a massive regional conflict that eventually redrew the entire map of the Balkan Peninsula.
The Nevesinje gun, the first shot fired in the 1875 uprising, signaled the beginning of the Great Eastern Crisis. Tired of high taxes and religious discrimination, local Christian peasants rose against the Ottoman Empire. What started as a local tax revolt quickly spiraled into a pan-Balkan movement involving Serbia, Montenegro, and eventually Russia.
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