Surviving Balkan League?

I'm mulling over a timeline with a surviving Balkan League, or several as i'm unsure of the POD.

Would proper demarcation of borders before the first Balkan War be enough, or is another war always going to happen at this point?

Personally, i have my doubts about this, as Albania will always thow a spanner in the works...

A book i read a while ago (can't cite, sorry: its in a library 230ish miles away) seemed to suggest that enduring alliance will be difficult after the Serbo-Bulgarian War, so do i need to change or prevent this occurring?

If so, then a whole multitude of opportunities arise: surviving Battenburgs, overthrown Obrenovics in 1885?

All, and any comments would be gratefully received :)
 
I don't think Albania was the biggest problem, it was Macedonia. As all three Balkan powers wanted it, it would be a pretty significant problem moving forward.

Possibly if Bulgaria had gained it instead of Serbia things could have gone more smoothly, but then Bulgaria didn't get it because it had to do all the heavy lifting against the Ottoman army and was pretty tired.

I'm mulling over a timeline with a surviving Balkan League, or several as i'm unsure of the POD.

Would proper demarcation of borders before the first Balkan War be enough, or is another war always going to happen at this point?

Personally, i have my doubts about this, as Albania will always thow a spanner in the works...

A book i read a while ago (can't cite, sorry: its in a library 230ish miles away) seemed to suggest that enduring alliance will be difficult after the Serbo-Bulgarian War, so do i need to change or prevent this occurring?

If so, then a whole multitude of opportunities arise: surviving Battenburgs, overthrown Obrenovics in 1885?

All, and any comments would be gratefully received :)
 
Thanks Abdul :)

The reason i mentioned Albania is that i thought Greece and Serbia cited the creation of this as the reason why they deserved more of Macedonia - along with Serbian help at Adrianople/Edirne.

Was this just a convenient excuse for a landgrab which was always on the cards?

Basically, the timeline in its original context was to give the Bulgars a bit better time in the fall of the Ottomans. ?I don't want it to turn into a wank with San Stefano borders or even Constantinople :eek:.

Thing is, if Bulgaria was with the Serbs in 1914, would A-H have invaded, facing Serbia, Montenegro and the 'Prussia of the Balkans'?

What would happen in the Ottoman Empire/ Turkey without Kemal being the hero of Edirne?
 
The reason i mentioned Albania is that i thought Greece and Serbia cited the creation of this as the reason why they deserved more of Macedonia - along with Serbian help at Adrianople/Edirne.

Was this just a convenient excuse for a landgrab which was always on the cards?

In my opinion it was both a pretext and the 2 of them feeling they had gotten too little. The basic expectations of Greece and Serbia were more modest than those of Bulgaria, though all 3 had great ambitions; the Serbs may have set their eyes on an Aegean coastline, but if they got an Adriatic one they would've probably settled for Skopje. It would have been easier to get a peaceful settlement in Macedonia if not for Albanian independence.

Thing is, if Bulgaria was with the Serbs in 1914, would A-H have invaded, facing Serbia, Montenegro and the 'Prussia of the Balkans'?

I don't think Bulgaria would have backed the Serbs in 1914, but they're also unlikely to have joined the CP in the war.
 
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