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Eastern Question

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Eastern Question

  1. (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.

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