Editing Sick man of Europe (section)

=== Early usage ===
Russian [[Nicholas I of Russia|Tsar Nicholas I]] ({{Reign|1825|1855}}), seeking to expand into parts of the Ottoman Empire during the [[Eastern Question]], had described Turkey as "sick" or "sick man" during his meeting with Austrian chancellor [[Klemens von Metternich|Metternich]]  ({{Reign|1809|1848|label=in office}}) in [[Mnichovo Hradiště|Münchengrätz]], two months after the [[Treaty of Hünkâr İskelesi]] in September 1833. In his own writing, Metternich said he had argued against this characterization.<ref name="ottoman"/><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Vitzthum von Eckstädt|first1=Karl Friedrich|url=http://archive.org/details/stpetersburgand01ecksgoog|title=St. Petersburg and London in the years 1852–64|last2=Reeve|first2=Henry|last3=Taylor|first3=Edward Fairfax|date=1887|publisher=London, Longmans, Green & co.|others=University of Michigan|pages=29–30}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Šedivý|first=Miroslav|date=2011|title=From Adrianople to Münchengrätz: Metternich, Russia, and the Eastern Question 1829–33|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23032802|journal=The International History Review|volume=33|issue=2|pages=205–233|doi=10.1080/07075332.2011.555387|jstor=23032802|s2cid=154635816|issn=0707-5332|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Conventionally, foreign minister Metternich was opposed to the characterization of the Ottoman Empire as "sick man of the [[Bosporus|Bosphorus]]" because this could lead to his country, the [[Austrian Empire]], becoming the "sick man of the Danube".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77601805|title=Discourses of collective identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945) : texts and commentaries. Vol. II, National romanticism, the formation of national movements|date=2007|publisher=Central European University Press|others=Balázs Trencsényi, Michal Kopeček|isbn=978-1-4294-2547-6|location=Budapest|pages=368|oclc=77601805}}</ref> Other historians, evaluating the conservative "[[Holy Alliance]]" of the time, have seen Metternich's foreign policy as aligned with Nicholas, including the policy towards the Ottoman Empire.<ref name=":2" />