Eastern Question

proper noun

The diplomatic and political issues raised by the decline and break-up of the Ottoman Empire.

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Eastern Question1

proper noun

alternative Eastern question

  1. historicalThe diplomatic and political issues raised by the decline and break-up of the Ottoman Empire.

    This was finalised a few weeks later at the Congress of Paris, called to settle the entire Eastern Question.

    1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 256

Eastern question2

proper noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Eastern Question.
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