Pan-Arabism is the concept is the concept that all Arabs from one nation should be politically united in one Arab state. Since the 1960’s, Pan-Arabism was receded as a meaningful political aspiration, giving way to the acceptance of reality of existing Arab state structure overlaid by a continuing sense of Arab cultural unity and political solidarity. Since the Ottoman Turks rose to power in the 14th century, there have been stirrings among Arabs for reunification as a means of reestablishing Arab political power. An explicit ideology positing the existence of one Arab nation and calling for …show more content…
In 1806 and again in 1815, the Serbs secured autonomy from the Ottomans. Almost immediately after Serbia’s autonomy, the Serbs began seeking expansion and unity of all the southern Slavs not under Serbian rule. Due to a different position within Austria-Hungary. A strong alternative to Pan-Slavism was Austroslavism, especially among the Slovenes. Because the Serbs were distributed among several provinces, and the fact that they had special ties to the independent nation state of Serbia, they were among the strongest supporters of South-Slavs from Austria. After World War I the creation of the of the kingdom of Yugoslavia, under Serbian royalty, did unite most Southern Slavs regardless of religion and cultural background. The only ones they did not unite with were the