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“The alliance of the three princes”, illustration, 1908

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    The ‘sick man on the Danube’

    In connection with the Ottoman Empire’s inexorable nineteenth-century decline, Tsar Nicholas II coined the expression of the ‘sick man on the Bosphorus’. Another empire in crisis was Austria-Hungary.