 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Nyika dzeBalkan dzave dziri mumhirizhonga kubvira kutanga kwema1900, nemakore ehondo yemagandanga muMacedoniayakateverwa neYoung Turk Revolution uye Dambudziko reBosnia rakareba. Kutanga kweHondo yeItaly neTurkey muna 1911 kwakanga kwatowedzera kusimbisa maOttoman uye kwakasimbisa nyika dzeBalkan. Pasi pesimba reRussia, Serbia neBulgaria vakagadzirisa kusawirirana kwavo ndokusaina chibvumirano, pakutanga chakanangana neAustria-Hungary musi wa13 Kurume 1912, asi nekuwedzera chitsauko chakavanzika kwacho chakanyatsoendesa mubatanidzwa kurwisa Humambo hweOttoman. Serbia ipapo yakasaina mubatanidzwa pamwe chete neMontenegro, nepo Bulgaria yakaita zvimwe chetezvo neGreece. Sangano rakabudirira muhondo yekutanga yeBalkan yakatanga muna Gumiguru 1912, apo rakabudirira kutora kutonga kwenzvimbo dzese dzeEuropean Ottoman. Mushure mekukunda uku, zvisinei, kusawirirana kusati kwagadziriswa pakati pevakabatana kwakabudazve pamusoro pekugovaniswa kwezvakapambwa, kunyanya Makedhonia, zvichitungamira mukuparara kweSangano, uye nguva pfupi yapfuura, musi wa16 Chikumi 1913, Bulgaria yakarwisa vaimbove vakabatana, ichitanga Hondo yechipiri yeBalkan. 