Eastern Question

• Eastern question

Eastern Question

1. (historical) The diplomatic and political issues raised by the decline and break-up of the Ottoman Empire.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 256:

     This was finalised a few weeks later at the Congress of Paris, called to settle the entire Eastern Question.

• (questions of history) national question; Adriatic Question, Armenian Question, Black Question, Eastern Question, German Question, Irish Question, Jewish Question, Karelian Question, Polish Question, Roman Question, Schleswig-Holstein Question