GREEKS AND SERBS IN THE RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN EMPIRES

 Greeks and Serbs formed key ethnic elements in the Russian and especially the Austrian Empires which were multiethnic.

History favors labeling rather than fine print. Not unlike social  media today, what are  usually remembered are the posts and tweets rather than the long complicated  but often more rewarding reads,  

In the details, all too often find the realities ones easily overlooked that they are no longer realities and we are left with empty headlines.

On the cult of the southward expansion of the Russian and Austrian Empires against the formerly dominant Ottomans pertaining to the 100 years between the Ottomans' defeat at the gate of Vianna in 1683 and the Russian annexation of the Crimea in 1973 the headlines are indeed few.

Most students of history will know that the Russian and particularly the Austrian Empires were multiethnic and that this would eventually figure in the collapse of both.

Few knew, however, that in both Empires, Greeks and Serbs formed key ethnic elements.