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History of the Balkans. The Balkan Peninsula, as defined geographically, by the Danube–Sava–Kupa line. The Balkans and parts of this area may also be placed in Southeastern, Southern, Eastern Europe and Central Europe.
The concept of the Balkan Peninsula was created by the German geographer August Zeune in 1808, [ 7 ] who mistakenly considered the Balkan Mountains the dominant mountain system of Southeast Europe spanning from the Adriatic Sea to the Black Sea.
23 paź 2024 · At the dawn of recorded history, two Indo-European peoples dominated the area: the Illyrians to the west and the Thracians to the east of the great historical divide defined by the Morava and Vardar river valleys. The Thracians were advanced in metalworking and in horsemanship.
26 paź 2019 · History of the Balkans. by. Jelavich, Barbara, 1923-1995. Publication date. 1983. Topics. Balkan Peninsula -- History. Publisher. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press.
1 paź 2024 · Balkan Wars, conflicts that deprived the Ottoman Empire of all its territory in Europe except part of Thrace and the city of Edirne (Adrianople). The Balkan allies Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria quarreled over the partitioning of their conquests, leading to another war in 1913.
5 lis 2008 · The Balkans should probably be defined as that borderland geographical space in which four of the world’s greatest civilizations have overlapped in a sustained and meaningful way to produce a complex, dynamic, sometimes combustible, multi-layered local civilization.
This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, which both had their origins in the desire of nationalist circles to complete the territorial unification of their states. A substantial part of this book deals with the wartime experience, the establishment of the postwar regimes and their internal development to 1980 and the ...
