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[FONT=&quot]An unlikely historical accident - The rise of a new nation[/FONT]


Excerpt from “When the end begin. The rise of new nations at the end of the XIX century” by Prof. Nicolas Chirac, Université de Paris.

Translation from the French original version:
“Sometimes in history, accidents happened. Some of historians could see the rise of new nations in the middle of the XIX century in Europe as one of those historical accidents or as a normal and inevitable evolution, by others. Some of those nations were completely news (as the Kingdom of Northern Italy), other were old sleeping ones (like Greece or Serbia) and they appearance or they re-appearance on the history stage was more or less deterministic and inevitable.
There is a case when a new nation and surprising a very successful one in the modern age, was simply the result of an accident of the history. This nations was born grace to an incredibly succession of special conditions that hardly could be reproduced, at the intersection of three great empires, each one trying to capitalize over the others.
In those harsh conditions, an ancient people has given birth to a young nation. This is a perfect example of study case studied by all history students and only the re-birth of Israel and rise of Prussia are more heavily studied.”
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