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	Balkans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The larger land mass is sometimes referred to as the Balkan peninsula as it is surrounded by the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean, Marmara and Black seas from the southwest, south and southeast.
		The Balkan nations began to regain their independence in the 19th century, and in 1912-1913 a Balkan League reduced Turkey's territory to its present extent in the Balkan Wars.
		In the 1990s, the region was gravely affected by armed conflict in the former Yugoslav republics, resulting in intervention by NATO forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/b/ba/balkans.html (1571 words)

	Balkans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The northern border of the Balkan peninsula is usually considered 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 highest mountain of the region is Musala in Bulgaria at 2925 m, with Mount Olympus in Greece being second at 2919 m and Vihren in Bulgaria being the third at 2914.
		The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balkan (2423 words)

	Balkans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The northern border of the Balkan peninsula is generally considered be the line formed by the Danube, Sava and Kupa rivers and a segment connecting the spring of the Kupa with the Kvarner Bay.
		It is historically justifiable because the region so defined (together with Romania and excluding Montenegro, Dalmatia, and the Ionian Islands) constituted most of the European territory of the Ottoman Empire from the late 15th to the 19th century.
		On the coasts the climate is Mediterranean, in the inland it is moderate continental.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Balkans.htm (2120 words)

	Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word "region" is taken from the Latin regio, and a number of countries have borrowed the term as the formal name for a type of subnational entity (eg, the región, used in Chile).
		A region can also be used for a geographical area; with this usage, there is an implied distinctiveness about the area that defines it.
		Such a distinction is often made on the basis of a historical, political, or cultural cohesiveness that separates the region from its neighbours.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Region (361 words)

	HISTORY OF THE BALKANS FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Balkan linguistic union or Balkan sprachbund is a name given to the similarities in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology found in the languages of the Balkans.
		The Ottoman conquest of the Balkans was characterised by centuries of bloody struggle for freedom and protracted periods of stalemate with the Habsburgs along the border in Hungary as well as anti-Turkish propaganda in Europe, and with the invasions from the east.
		(The Balkans by Forbes and Hogarth and Mitrany and Toynbee http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11716
	www.whereintheworldiskerry.com /History_of_the_Balkans (8601 words)

	Balkans biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The region takes its name from the Balkan mountains which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia, and the term 'Balkan' itself might come from the Turkish word "bölge" meaning "area, region".
		The Balkans are generally considered to comprise the lands to the south of the Kupa, Sava and Danube rivers, which bisect Croatia and Serbia and form a natural boundary between Bulgaria and Romania.
		The Balkan land mass is sometimes referred to as the Balkan peninsula as it is surrounded by the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean, Marmara and Black seas from the southwest, south and southeast.
	balkan.biography.ms (1719 words)

	The Balkan Linguistic Union
		The Turks, occupying various regions all over the Balkan peninsula during the period of their domination, are at present concentrated mainly in its southeastern parts.
		Balkanisms appear equally in the speech of Northern Rumanians living in the Timok valley, south of the Danube, in Transylvania, Wallachia (Muntenia) or Moldova.
		He states that it is not always possible to know the origin of a certain feature: they may be the effect of the substratum, or of the prolonged and close symbiosis between the different populations, influencing each other, of which most influence emanated from Greek, which is explained by the superior Greek civilization.
	www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/B/Balkan_Linguistic_Union.html (985 words)

	Historical regions of the Balkan Peninsula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is a list of major historical regions of the Balkan Peninsula.
		Note that these regions come from different time periods - from ancient to modern era - and may often overlap.
		National borders have been drawn across those regions multiple times over centuries so usually they cannot be assigned to any specific nation.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Historical_regions_of_the_Balkan_Peninsula (160 words)

	Geography and ethnic geography of the Balkans to 1500
		Geography and ethnic geography of the Balkans to 1500
		One can't understand the Balkans without understanding its ethnic groups, and one can't understand the ethnic groups and their history without knowing the influence of the region's geography.
		The Balkan region is a triangular peninsula with a wide northern border, narrowing to a tip as it extends to the south.
	www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan/lecture1.html (4967 words)

	History of Europe - Biocrawler definition:History of Europe - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Etruscans inhabited central Italy and Lombardy, where they were displaced by the Celts, who mingled with earlier residents of Iberia to produce a unique Celtiberian culture.
		The conventional end of the Middle Ages is usually associated with the fall of the city Constantinople and of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
		Hitler's ideological foes were the Communists in Russia but because of the German failure to defeat Britain and the Italian failures in North Africa and the Mediterranean the Axis forces were split between garrisoning western Europe and Scandinavia and also attacking Africa.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/History_of_Europe (4826 words)

	BALKANS FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The Balkan nations began to regain their independence in the 19th_century(Greece), and in 1912-1913 a Balkan_League reduced Turkey's territory to its present extent in the Balkan_Wars.
		The First World War was sparked in 1914 by the assassination_in_Sarajevo (the capital of Bosnia_and_Herzegovina) of the Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria.
		In the 1990s, the region was gravely affected by armed conflict in the former Yugoslav republics, resulting in intervention by NATO forces in Bosnia_and_Herzegovina, Kosovo and the Republic_of_Macedonia.
	www.amysflowershop.com /Balkans (2286 words)

	Balkan Opportunities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The term Balkans is due to the Berlin geographer Johann August Zeune (1778-1853) who, in 1808, coined the term Balkanhalbinsel, which had a tremendous impact.
		Initially it was a purely geographical term, and referred to the mountainous regions of modern Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania and Greece.
		The German word was based on Turkish balakan 'stone, cliff', which confirms the pure 'technical' meaning of the term.
	www.balkans.mehedinti.info (2331 words)

	The History Guy: The Third Balkan War (1991-Present)
		Yugoslavia (literally, Land of the South Slavs), was a nation born out of the ashes of World War One, created through the merger of the mostly Catholic regions of Slovenia and Croatia with the Eastern Orthodox Kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro.
		In southern Yugoslavia lay the region of Kosovo, a fairly new addition to Serbia, containing a largely Muslim population which spoke Albanian.
		The first two Balkan Wars were short conflicts at the start of the Twentieth Century.
	www.historyguy.com /balkan_war_third.htm (1089 words)

	REENIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Balkan Information Exchange (a web site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense in order to provide an international audience with a portal to a broad range of information on the Balkan region; in English, Russian, Albanian, Greek, and Serbian)
		Balkan Region - Central from the UT Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection: Historical maps, political maps, reference maps and more are available, online, from the PCL map collection.
		Historical Maps of The Balkans (from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, the University of Texas at Austin)
	reenic.utexas.edu /reenic/regions/balkan.html (1016 words)

	HISTORY OF EUROPE FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The Turks made the city the capital of their Ottoman_Empire, which lasted until 1919 and also included Egypt, Syria and most of the Balkans.
		After allying with Mussolini's Italy in the "Pact_of_Steel" and signing a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, the German dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin started World_War_II on 1 st and 17 th September 1939 attacking Poland and following a military build-up throughout the late 1930s.
		Four (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia_and_Herzegovina and Macedonia) out of six Yugoslav republics declared independence and for most of them a violent war ensued, in some parts lasting until 1995.
	www.amysflowershop.com /History_of_Europe (4815 words)

	BALKANS BOOKS SOURCE, FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS
		Les Balkans sont une rÃ©gion du sud de l'Europe.
		Le terme des "Balkans" est apparu dans la langue franÃ§aise au cours du 18Ã¨ siÃ¨cle.
		Par exemple, le journal en ligne ''Balkan Times'' s'est lui-mÃªme renommÃ© ''Southeast_European_Times'' en 2003.
	www.lilbooks.com /Balkans (238 words)

	Historical regions of the Balkan Peninsula - TheBestLinks.com - Albania, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Bosnia and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	VILLAGE COMMUNITIES - Online Information article about VILLAGE COMMUNITIES
		Alps in their stubborn struggle with nature and with human enemies have clustered and still cluster to some extent 'e.g.
		mountain Slays of the Balkans and of the Alps.
		Now the Saxon or Ditmarschen portion of this region gives us an opportunity of observing the effects of an extended and highly systematized tribal organization on Germanic soil.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /VAN_VIR/VILLAGE_COMMUNITIES.html (6700 words)

	Historical Map Web Sites - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
		Historical and Political Maps of the Modern Age (Joaquín de Salas Vara de Rey)
		Balkans - Albanian Vilayets During the Ottoman Empire ca.
		Balkans - Historical and Political Maps of the Balkan States (Joaquin de Salas Vara de Rey)
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