Contents 9 Guido Franzinetti Introduction: Nation-building and state-building in the Balkans 15 Marco Dogo Before and outside the nation 37 Mirjana Marinkovic The shaping of a modern Serbian nation and of its state under the Turkish rule 47 Kostas P. Kostis The formation of the state in Greece, 1830-1914 65 Michael Palairet Rural Serbia reshaped and retarded, 1739-1914 81 Alexei Kalionski Ethnicity and migrations. The Bulgarian case, 1830-1915 103 Diana Mishkova The nation as zadruga: Remapping nation-building in nineteenth-century Southeast Europe 117 Secil Deren From pan-lslamism to Turkish nationalism: modernisation and German influence in the late Ottoman period 141 Nesim Seker The general elections of 1919 in Turkey 163 List of Contributors