The Slavic people were the same ethnic group as the Russians, so they wanted to support them against Austria-Hungary, whom Russia was fighting land for.
Russia, being the largest and most powerful of all the Slavic countries, was viewed as the protector of all the Slavic people. When Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia retaliated against Austria-Hungary to assist their Slavic bretheren.
Serbia. It wanted to create a Slavic empire and some Slavic states were in Austria-Hungary.
Yes. Russia entered a regional conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia to protect its fellow Slavic nation.
The rising nationalism in Serbia created conflict with Austria-Hungary who had annexed Bosnia & Herzegovina, both slavic speaking states. Serbia wanted to create a single unified slavic empire so they looked to the Russians for military support. This ultimately led to the decline of Austria-Hungary.
The Slavic people were the same ethnic group as the Russians, so they wanted to support them against Austria-Hungary, whom Russia was fighting land for.
The black hand gang
The non-Slavic countries of Eastern Europe include Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Albania, Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan.
The assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. He was killed by Gavrillo Princip, a slavic nationalist in Sarahevo, Bosnia in 1914. Austria-Hungary used this as an excuse to invade Bosnia.
If one defines Eastern Europe as, east of the Germanic lands, or former Socialist countries, then it would be Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus which are Slavic. Ones sharing a Slavic heritage, are Hungary and Romania, namely region which is now Hungary was part of the Moravian Slavic Kingdom until the Turkic Magyars (Hungars) came and occupied it. Hungary and Romania share a Slavic substratum, but were largely influenced by the Roman superstratum (Romania) and a Turkic one (Hungary), meaning that eventhough those people share most of their tradition and heritage as well as kinship with the Slavs, they speak a Latin or Romance language, namely Romanian and a Turkic language namely Hungarian.
SlavicThe Russian language belongs to the East Slavic family of languages. Its brother languages are Ukrainian, Belarusian and Rusyn. The East Slavic is part of the Slavic languages.It goes like this.- Indo European- Proto Slavic- Slavic- East Slavic- Russian
Slavic people speak Slavic languages. Some of the most common are:RussianPolishCzechSlovakBulgarianUkrainianBelarussianRusynSlovenianBosnianCroatianMontenegrinMacedonianChurch SlavonicFurthermore, some Slavic people speak non-Slavic languages as well, particularly:EnglishGermanRomanianHungarianFrench