|Russo-Romanian-Turkish War (1877–1878)| Plevna Monument near
the walls of Kitai-gorod | Russian Empire | Mikhail Skobelev
Carol I of Romania | Ahmed Muhtar Pasha |Casualties and losses|
|Russian: 27,512 killed in battle, missing in action, and died
of wounds. 49,828 wounded. 46,000+ non-combat deaths, mostly
from disease.  Romanian: 4,302 dead and missing, 3,316 wounded,
19,904 sick. |151,750+ killed, wounded, or captured| The Russo-
Turkish War of 1877–1878 had its origins in a rise in
nationalism in the Balkans as well as in the Russian goal of
recovering territorial losses it had suffered during the Crimean
War, reestablishing itself in the Black Sea and following the
political movement attempting to free Balkan nations from the
Ottoman Empire. As a result of the war, the principalities of
Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, each of which had had de facto
sovereignty for some time, formally proclaimed independence from
the Ottoman Empire. After four centuries of Ottoman domination
(1396–1878), the Bulgarian st