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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Balkans
		The Balkans are sometimes referred to as the "Balkan Peninsula" as they are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
		The northern border of the Balkan peninsula is usually considered to be the line formed by the Danube, Sava and Kupa rivers and a segment connecting the spring of the Kupa with the Kvarner Bay.
		The Balkan nations began to regain their independence in the 19th century (Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro), and in 1912-1913 a Balkan League reduced Turkey's territory to its present extent in the Balkan Wars.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Balkans (2780 words)

	balkan wars - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The wars were an important precursor to World War I, to the extent that Austria-Hungary took alarm at the great increase in Serbia's territory and regional status.
		Tensions among the Balkan states over their rival aspirations in Macedonia subsided somewhat following intervention by the great Powers in the mid-1900s aimed at securing both fuller protection for the province's Christian majority and protection of the status quo.
		On December 2, the Balkan League signed an armistice with Turkey ending the war.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Balkan-Wars (571 words)

	CRTC for ITCAMP: Coastal Profiles. Turkmenistan
		The total population of the Balkan province for 2000 is 391 485, which is less than 10% of the total population of Turkmenistan.
		The structure of population employment in the Balkan province is characterised by a big proportion of the population engaged in industry.
		The main oil fields are situated in heartland (between Cheleken peninsula and Balkanabad) and in the south-west of the province of Balkan in the vicinity of Okarem.
	www.caspianenvironment.org /itcamp/turkmen3.htm (4792 words)

	History of Balkan wars conflicts forum chat debate
		In particular, the power of Serbia — the largest and most populous republic — was diluted by the establishment of autonomous governments in the province of Vojvodina in the north of Serbia and Kosovo in the south.
		The Memorandum paid special attention to Kosovo, arguing, in obvious error, that the province's Serbs were being subjected to "physical, political, legal and cultural genocide" in an "open and total war" that had been ongoing since the spring of 1981.
		NATO countered this argument by claiming that instability in the Balkans was a direct threat to the security interests of NATO members, and military action was therefore justified by the NATO charter.
	historyofbalkanwarsconflictscrimeforumch.blogsource.com (11306 words)

	Balkan Wars
		The Balkan states saw in the Turkish revolution of 1908-1909 and the Turko-Italian War of 1911-1912 an opportunity to retaliate against the Turks, their former oppressors.
		The Balkan Alliance won a series of decisive victories over the Turks during the next two months, forcing them to relinquish Albania, Macedonia, and practically all their other holdings in southeast Europe.
		Among the causes of the friction was the Bulgarian refusal to recognize the Serbian claim to certain Bulgarian-held portions of Macedonia.
	www.geocities.com /dorik2k/iearn/bwars.htm (982 words)

	Balkan Wars IV by Fred C. Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		BALKAN WARS III was Fred Davis' first modification of Reinsel's game, to improve the map and rules, in 1986.
		Unordered retreats after the Spring move will be handled by Just's Right-Hand Rule (the GM retreats the unit to the first vacant province, starting with the space immediately to the right of the province from which the attack came, then the first to the left, etc.).
		In BALKAN WARS IV I've added five new neutral centres, two new ordinary spaces, and two new sea spaces (Cyclades and the Eastern Med.), so there are now 26 centres and 26 non-centres.
	www.variantbank.org /results/rules/b/balkan4.htm (1013 words)

	Balkan Repository Project - 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A number of Serbs has drastically dwindled since the KFOR arrival in the province, the Blic daily said on August 22.
		The funeral was attended by Jakup Krasniqi, one of the KLA leader and a minister in Thaqi's self-proclaimed government, as well as the KLA commander in charge of the Drenica region, Gani Koci.
		Some 80,000 Romanies moved from Kosovo and Metohija to Serbia proper and Montenegro, president of the Association of Romanies of Yugoslavia Djura Simic said on August 23, at a meeting with Romanies of Kosovo, temporarily accommodated in Pozarevac and Kostolac.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosovo_crisis/Aug_28/3.html (2536 words)

	BALKANS CHRONOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Balkans Chronology, Volume II, Issue 10, provides an overview of current events in the countries and regions of the former Yugoslavia and the Balkan Peninsula.
		Balkan negotiators Richard Holbrooke and Chris Hill are to meet today in Belgrade with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to get the hard-line leader to agree to a plan to end the yearlong conflict over Kosovo.
		Kosovo is a province of Serbia, the dominant republic of Yugoslavia.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /balkans/bc2m08p2.htm (13038 words)

	Balkan-war-pehota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Balkan Wars, two consecutive wars fought from 1912 to 1913 among the countries of the Balkan Peninsula for
		The Balkan states saw in the Turkish revolution of 1908-1909 and the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-1912 an opportunity to
		The Balkan Wars profoundly influenced the subsequent course of European history.
	members.aol.com /bogdanovaslava/Balkan-war-pehota.html (765 words)

	Serbia and the KLA - Results of Intervention
		The province itself is U.N.-administered but remains part of Serbia-Montenegro, the successor state to Yugoslavia, with its final status to be decided by the United Nations.
		Countless acts of ethnic Albanian vengeance have plagued the province since the U.N. and NATO moved into Kosovo and around 180,000 Serbs are estimated to have fled the province.
		Balkan leaders and EU officials are scheduled to meet on February 23 in Macedonia's capital Skopje to discuss security in the region.
	www.dojgov.net /InterventionResults.htm (16201 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		The real reason for their objections is probably that the Serbs realize that any steps toward resolving the status question will sooner or later mean an end to even the formal links between Belgrade and Kosova mentioned in UN Security Council Resolution 1244 of 1999.
		Were any Belgrade leaders to convince the international community of the advisability of partitioning Kosova -- either as part of a settlement affecting the province or as part of a more comprehensive redrawing of Balkan borders -- leading Kosovar politicians say that they would insist on new frontiers, too.
		Balkan Islam is a relatively flexible, borderland faith, not generally known for dogmatism.
	www.rferl.org /reports/balkan-report/2003/12/41-191203.asp (4040 words)

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		The Balkan Mountain population is concentrated in the Central Balkan National Park and is the smallest in the country.
		The Central Balkan Range is one of the cleanest areas in the country, but the dangers of pollution - posed, for example, by the plant in Srednogorie, the chain of plants at Sopot, Karlovo, and Kazanlak, and the plants in the industrial towns to the north - should not be overlooked.
		The Central Balkan Range, together with the Vasiluyvska Planina on the north and the Sredna Gora on the south, form the largest unbroken expanse of oak forest in Bulgaria.
	www.worldwildlife.org /bsp/publications/europe/bulgaria/bulgaria32.html (14117 words)

	KOSOVAREPORT: November 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But the very real efforts of Western Balkan governments to reform are not paying off as expected, and their populations seem to be increasingly frustrated by the fact they have seen few tangible rewards for their labours.
		The North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led KFOR troops were deployed on Kosovo and the province was put under U.N. rule in mid-1999after the ethnic Albanian rebellion and the fierce clashes with Belgrade forces which led to a humanitarian crisis in the province.
		But the UN mission's role in the province is seen by international officials as increasingly untenable because of the failure to resolve the area's future status.
	kosovareport.blogspot.com /2005_11_01_kosovareport_archive.html (13623 words)

	Balkan Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balkan Province (Balkan welaýaty / Балкан велаяты) is one of the Welayatlar of Turkmenistan.
		Balkan Province has significant energy reserves, which account for 94% of Turkmenistan's natural gas production and 12% of its petroleum production.
		Due to the very low water supply, agriculture is negligible, and only 4.5% of Turkmenistan's arable lands are within the province.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balkan_Province (151 words)

	CRTC for ITCAMP: Coastal Profiles. Turkmenistan
		In compliance with the Law on khakims (governor/mayor) of 24 November 1995, khakims of provinces, etraps and cities are exercising executive and directive powers in Turkmenistan.
		The whole Caspian coast of Turkmenistan is part of the province of Balkan, with the administrative centre in the city of Balkanobad.
		Branches of the above agencies are functioning at the territory of the province of Balkan.
	www.caspianenvironment.org /itcamp/turkmen4.htm (1950 words)

	Resource Investor - Mining Finance - Mining Opportunities May Abound in the New Kosovo
		Part of the way in which UNMIK intends to engineer this is by privatising some of the province’s mineral resources, which are fairly extensive and range in stages of development from the pure green field to the developed but requiring restoration.
		The official currency of the province is and is likely to remain the euro, lessening the currency risk to any operation.
		Labour costs in the province are low, being estimated on average at around 200 euros per month, while levels of education remain fairly high and labour relations are reportedly generally cordial.
	www.resourceinvestor.com /pebble.asp?relid=14927 (1054 words)

	Yugoslav Daily Survey, 98-09-14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He appealed to his colleagues from Balkan journalists' federations and associations to make a real contribution to the peaceful resolution of all problems in Kosovo and Met ohije through objective and unbiased reporting.
		He listed the geostrategic position and importance of th e Balkan peninsula as some of the factors that substantiated the idea that the Bal kan peoples should be the ones to decide on the fate of the Balkans.
		There are no people in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, who have taken refuge outside their villages, left out in the open, representatives of international aid agencies and local authorities told Tanjug on Sunday.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/yds/1998/98-09-14.yds.html (5798 words)

	Serbianna.com \| News Story
		International peacekeepers and U.N. authorities running the province were enforcing strict security measures for Kostunica's visit to the province, where tension and occasional violence persists between the ethnic Albanian majority and Serb minority.
		He was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity over Kosovo's conflict, in which Serbia lost control of the province it cherishes as the birthplace of its nationhood.
		The province's U.N. administration can deny entry to anyone they believe could be under threat, or if their presence could pose a threat to others.
	www.serbianna.com /news/2006/01943.shtml (745 words)

	All Headline News - Deadlock At Kosovo Meet For Settlement Of Balkan Province - November 2, 2006
		The U.N. envoy and former Finnish President, Martti Ahtisaari mediated the Vienna summit of Serbian and Kosovo Prime Ministers and Presidents.
		The latter argued that it would not forfeit 15 percent of its national territory, particularly since many Serbs see the province as the cradle of their nation.
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	www.allheadlinenews.com /articles/7004335947 (276 words)

	Why minority rights go unprotected
		In a province struggling to recover from decades of xenophobic entrenchment, I have unearthed a truth at which I could never have guessed.
		The objective of ‘Roots’ is the military and ethnic destabilization of Yugoslavia, the last bastion of resistance in the Balkans.
		If the Balkans are to receive the opportunity they deserve for building peace and stability, the KLA's symbol of mono-ethnic existence must be promptly dismantled.
	www.sit-edu-geneva.ch /ISPJZmm.htm (7976 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The unstable Balkan province of Kosovo braced itself for a bout of unrest on Tuesday night when Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj was indicted for war crimes by the international tribunal in The Hague and his government collapsed.
		Hundreds of additional British and German soldiers were rushed to the province just before the announcement to bolster security in case of riots.
		Haradinaj was a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the guerrilla force opposing the Serbs, in the west of the province.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/world/archives/2005/03/10/2003245654/print (402 words)

	Serbianna.com \| News Story
		PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro-The EU's envoy for Kosovo talks arrives in the province Thursday to discuss the ongoing talks on finding a future settlement and the EU's role in the process, an official said.
		He will also meet with an expert group dealing with the Balkan province's economy in the status process.
		EU officials recommended late last year that the bloc take over policing duties in Kosovo from the United Nations, which has been administering the province since 1999, adding the EU had a responsibility to help rebuild the province.
	www.serbianna.com /news/2006/01488.html (247 words)

	Tufts E-News -- A Defining Moment In History
		Five years after the United States-led NATO intervention into Kosovo, the region remains at a crossroads – and according to a Tufts expert, it’s time for the U.S. to step in again.
		With attacks occurring less than half a mile from United Nations peacekeepers stationed there to preserve peace, a Tufts expert says that the U.N. is failing its mission.
		“We are at a defining moment in the history of the Balkans,” Tufts professor R. Bruce Hitchner and his colleague Paul Williams of American University wrote in an op-ed published in the Baltimore Sun.
	www.tufts.edu /communications/stories/032604ADefiningMoment.htm (399 words)

	Kosovo at a Crossroads: UN Sees a Deal Just Ahead - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum
		For more than six years, this small Balkan province has been the subject of one of the most ambitious nation-building projects in recent history.
		Now, as the United Nations appears to be ready to broker a deal between Serbs and ethnic Albanians and to end its mission in Kosovo, judging the result of that long, expensive effort is not easy.
		The regional government is close to bankrupt, and the United Nations expects the economy to shrink by 2 percent this year.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/kosovo1/2005/1002crossroad.htm (1296 words)

	Pannonia - Province of the Roman Empire
		The proximity of dangerous barbarian tribes (Quadi, Marcomanni) across the Danube necessitated the presence of a large number of Legions and Auxiliaries and numerous limes (fortifications) were built on Roman side of the river.
		Pannonia superior was under the consular legate, who had formerly administered the single province, and had three legions under his control: Pannonia inferior at first under a praetorian legate with a single legion as garrison.
		In fact, Hadrian was the first governor of Pannonia Inferior and later as emperor, the region became one of the favorite destinations in his many travels.
	www.unrv.com /provinces/pannonia.php (738 words)

	Online NewsHour: Balkan Tinderbox-- June 22, 1998
		Fearing the current crisis in Kosovo may spark a greater Balkan conflict, NATO has decided to conduct air exercises in the region to demonstrate its military readiness to intervene if necessary.
		Located in southern Serbia, Kosovo, a former autonomous province of Yugoslavia, has been a contentious region for centuries [Timeline].
		Walker, director of the Balkan Institute, was the State Department's Croatia Desk Officer and a member of the Balkan Conflict Group in the Office of East European Affairs prior to resigning in 1993 over the U.S.' policy toward Bosnia.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/june98/kosovo_forum.html (523 words)

	balkan peninsula map and information page
		Extending to the south from central Europe into the Mediterranean Sea, the Balkan Peninsula (colored dark gray) includes the countries of Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia & Montenegro (formerly Yugoslavia) and European Turkey.
		The often referred to Western Balkans, bordering the Adriatic Sea, includes the countries of Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Yugoslavia.
		If you would like to submit an addition, change or correction, or suggest a new link, please forward it to our map department and we will give it our immediate attention.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/europe/balkans.htm (203 words)

	Bolton and the Balkan tribunal - Commentary - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		She is seeking to silence all opposition to the ICTY within the Croatian media.
		Someone needs to remind her she is not a former Hapsburg governor of a backward Balkan province, whose mandate is to crush internal rebellions.
		Her mandate is to pursue genuine war criminals; it is not to intimidate and silence journalists.
	washingtontimes.com /commentary/20050618-115927-4410r.htm (798 words)

	BALKANS CHRONOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Balkans Chronology, Volume II, Issue 16, provides an overview of current events in the countries and regions of the former Yugoslavia and the Balkan Peninsula.
		Its symbol is a gray wolf, a reference to an ancient legend of a gray wolf that led Turkic tribes westward from their ancestral homeland in Central Asia many centuries ago." He writes: "In the past, Nationalist Action has included strong strains of chauvinist nationalism.
		He added that "it all sounds fairly ominous and we don't know to what end they're doing it." Janowski stressed that the refugees "are being forcibly prevented from leaving." In Brussels, a NATO spokesman said that up to 250,000 displaced persons may be on the road inside Kosova, the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" reported.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /balkans/bc2a19p3.htm (12527 words)

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