Alone of all her sex? The Dutch Jeanne Merkus and the hitherto hidden other viragos in the Balkans during the great eastern crisis (1875-1878)
This paper deals with the question as to whether the well-reported Dutch volunteer warrior Jeanne Merkus was indeed the sole female fighter at the time of the anti-Ottoman rebellions and the wars in the Balkan Peninsula from 1875 to 1878, when the Great Eastern Crisis raged. While this rich outlandish lady - who has only recently earned her official biography - attracted much attention from the contemporary press, and later often surfaced in memoirs of sorts as well, her few female colleagues, mainly home-grown and of modest background, went mostly unnoticed by the general public. This first a... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Balcanica, Vol 2017, Iss 48, Pp 67-106 (2017) |
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Institute for Balkan Studies SASA
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Schlagwörter: | female volunteer fighter / rebellion / war / Great Eastern Crisis / Bosnia-Herzegovina / Montenegro / Serbia / Romania / Turkey-in-Europe / History of Balkan Peninsula / DR1-2285 |
Sprache: | Englisch Französisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26626325 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC1748067G |