Eastern Question

The diplomatic and political issues raised by the decline and break-up of the Ottoman Empire.

Proper noun

  1. The diplomatic and political issues raised by the decline and break-up of the Ottoman Empire.
    • This was finalised a few weeks later at the Congress of Paris, called to settle the entire Eastern Question. - 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 256:

Forms

Eastern question