Eastern Question
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- (historical) The diplomatic and political issues raised by the decline and break-up of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 256:
- This was finalised a few weeks later at the Congress of Paris, called to settle the entire Eastern Question.
See also
- (questions of history) national question; Adriatic Question, Armenian Question, Black Question, Eastern Question, German Question, Irish question, Jewish Question, Karelian Question, Polish Question, Roman Question, Schleswig-Holstein Question