One hundred years ago, in October 1912, the outbreak of what was later known as the First Balkan War terminated the Ottoman presence of 500 years on the European continent. A new order was implemented that propagated European nation-states, which aimed at expansion externally and ethnic homogenisation internally. Only the nation-state seemed to be a fully accepted member of the European family of states. Yugoslavia, the multi-ethnic exception to the rule, actually joined the choir, as she attempted to become home of a new, supra-ethnic nation to be invented.