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- River valley, the Pontic steppe and the Balkans. By the end of his short ... ==Campaigns in the Balkans== The annihilation of Khazaria was undertaken ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- Empire's enemies: he invaded the Balkans twice, besieging Constantinople ... a clear path through Illyria into the Balkans, which they invaded in 441 ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 18:24, 21 August 2023
- Ottoman Turks in Anatolia and the Serbs in the Balkans. Andronicus, who was an intellectual and a theologian rather than a statesman or soldier, weakened ...8 KB (1,270 words) - 17:58, 30 April 2023
- The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects in human history, ruling vast territories in North Africa, the Balkans, and ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- Many of the Goths migrated into Roman territory in the Balkans, while ... Goths resident in the area migrated to the Balkans. It was this group that ...25 KB (3,947 words) - 04:44, 18 November 2022
- act Austria-Hungary's aggression into the Balkans, Russia signed an agreement with Serbia to aid it militarily in the face of Austro-Hungarian ...9 KB (1,394 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2020
- between "Orthodox Christian and Muslim Balkans." ... Judenrein). Claiming that all areas of the Balkans with substantial Croatian ...32 KB (4,830 words) - 06:17, 23 January 2023
- Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East, Northeastern Africa and southern India over several ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- to these logistical centers and into the Balkans. The Ottomans laid siege ... empire. He presided over the loss of the Balkans, and entered an alliance ...18 KB (2,776 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- John V.A. Fine, Jr. (1987). The Late Medieval Balkans. (Ann Arbor: ... *Fine, Jr., John V.A. (1987). The Late Medieval Balkans. Ann Arbor: ...28 KB (4,067 words) - 06:32, 11 March 2024
- The ebb and flow of empires in the Balkans over the centuries has left ... The Paionians settled in the central Balkans in the valleys of the rivers ...50 KB (7,230 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- the crossroads of the ancient world: The Balkans to the West, the Eurasian ... See also the Balkans Regional organizations and Post-Soviet Regional ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- Kitchen: Modern Recipes from Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, Lebanon, Syria and Beyond. Interlink Publishing Group, 2001. ISBN 978-1566564328 ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- It is regarded as the economic center of the Balkans. It is situated between the southern slopes of the Medvednica Mountain and both the northern ...25 KB (3,575 words) - 05:19, 13 June 2023
- interest away from the Far East to a focus on the Balkans, and the two recent enemies befriended each other. In 1907, a Russo-Japanese convention was ...11 KB (1,628 words) - 04:51, 5 November 2022
- *Forsythia europaea Degen & Bald. Balkans in Albania and Kosovo. *Forsythia giraldiana Lingelsh. Northwest China. *Forsythia japonica Makino ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- L.S. Stavrianos, The Balkans since 1453 (New York: Rinehart, 1958 ... * Jelavich, Barbara. 1983. History of the Balkans, 18th and 19th Centuries ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- quot; following the Ottoman occupation of the Balkans. Certainly, Poland stood between the Ottomans and their hopes of further European conquest. ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 00:14, 12 April 2023
- Turkic advance into Central Europe and the Balkans. The confrontations always ... in 1699 secured vast amounts of the Balkans, including Hungary, for ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- recognized the independence of the Balkans and distributed some Ottoman ... army.mil/pdffiles/PUB123.pdf War in the Balkans, 1991-2002] (Carlisle, PA: ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 05:34, 5 November 2022
- throughout Europe. Soon afterwards, the Balkans fell to the Ottomans. Although ... later the Bulgars overwhelmed much of the Balkans, threatening Constantinople ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- Romanticism in the dramatic setting of the Balkans—has become the most popular. Typical of Shaw, the play pokes fun at the beliefs of his time ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 07:04, 18 April 2024
- By the fourteenth century, the Roma had reached the Balkans; by 1424 ... traditionally metalwork smiths, from the Balkans, many of whom migrated to ...37 KB (5,594 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- E. Blau, The German Campaigns in the Balkans (Spring 1941) (Burd Street ... undertaking of a joint offensive in the Balkans with the Greek strongholds ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- Roma arrived in Europe (to Iberia and the Balkans) from the Middle East, originating ... or religion. Muslims moved from the Balkans to Turkey, while Christians ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- Later, however, when other Ottoman provinces in the Balkans began ... inspired freedom struggles throughout the Balkans, immediately spilling over ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 16:50, 18 February 2023
- quot; civilization of Russia and the Balkans, and from the Greco-Roman ... *Contributor, Greece, in The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria, Serbia ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- Montenegro, meaning "black mountain" is a small, mountainous state in south-west Balkans, bordering Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- even though its constituent parts in the Balkans and Asia Minor contained ... later the Bulgars overwhelmed much of the Balkans, and in the early seventh ...39 KB (5,978 words) - 19:13, 24 November 2023
- and arranging (in Central Europe, the Balkans, Algeria, and Turkey). However, the outbreak of World War I forced him to stop these expeditions ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- from diverse ethnic elements of Anatolia, the Balkans, Eurasia and the Black Sea region and thrived in a culture of intense political strife, with ...14 KB (2,208 words) - 06:14, 1 April 2024
- Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula of Southern Europe that is home to three ethnic constituent peoples: Bosniaks ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- political career took him throughout the Balkans and into France and Imperial ... 1917 Rakovsky's focus remained on the Balkans and especially on his native ...62 KB (8,909 words) - 22:59, 3 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Samovar.silver.jpg|thumbnail|right|A conical urn-shaped silver-plated samovar]] ...16 KB (2,540 words) - 01:15, 21 April 2023
- Mehmed VI, original name in Turkish Latin alphabet Mehmed Vahdettin (January 14, 1861 – May 16, 1926) was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman ...16 KB (2,497 words) - 04:11, 9 November 2022
- *Lampe, John R. Balkans into Southeastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2006. ISBN 978-0333793473 *Miller, Marshall Lee. Bulgaria in the ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- empire, which at times covered most of the Balkans and spread its culture and ... the Byzantine Empire for control of the Balkans. During the reign of Boris ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- branch (SI), and given a spot on the OSS SI Balkans desk. In this role, based in Washington, he remotely monitored the situation in Yugoslavia. He assisted ...35 KB (5,251 words) - 19:35, 27 April 2024
- medieval even in Stoker's time. The Balkans had only recently shaken ... cases rose dramatically in Hungary and the Balkans. From the Balkans, the ...62 KB (10,177 words) - 20:44, 3 May 2023
- The dvoyanka is a double flute from the Balkans made of a single piece of wood, with six sound holes on one side. It is most frequently made ...19 KB (2,947 words) - 17:48, 28 March 2024
- * Jurisdiction—Disputes in the Balkans, Southern Italy, and Sicily over whether the Western or Eastern Church had jurisdiction. * Ecumenical ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 07:37, 4 January 2024
- created the Indo-European peoples of the Balkans, believed to be the ancient ... Adriatic Sea and gave Rome an excuse to invade the Balkans. ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- boys often captured in war and mainly from the Balkans; Willocks (2006). Tim Willocks fictional character, Mattias Tannhauser was captured as ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- and became the lingua franca of the Balkans and Eastern Europe.Horace ... the reform. Today, many languages in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and northern ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- of millions of Muslims expelled from the Balkans and Russia, and would consider ... Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus ...48 KB (7,401 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- known as the English walnut. It is native from the Balkans in southeast Europe, southwest and central Asia, to the Himalayas and southwest China. Its ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- The Goths and their allies entrenched in the Balkans consumed his attention. The Gothic crisis was bad enough that his co-Emperor Gratian relinquished ...21 KB (3,189 words) - 18:01, 30 April 2023
- Eastern and Western Roman Empires: he invaded the Balkans twice and encircled Constantinople in the second invasion. He marched through France as far ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- Africa, Spain, France, North Italy, the Balkans) for a thousand years, and flourished for a time in the land of its birth (Persia) and even ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- died of typhus while fighting the Ottomans in the Balkans. The disease also played a major role in the destruction of Napoleon's Grande Armée in ...22 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 11 February 2022
- with various separatist groups throughout the Balkans (especially groups of Italians, though also some Slavic groups), although without much success ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- 1998). Buckwheat is documented in Europe in the Balkans by at least the Middle Neolithic (c. 4000 B.C.E.). The oldest known remains in China so far ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 17:20, 30 April 2020
- and began to subvert other governments in the Balkans, Attlee's and Bevin's worst fears of Soviet intentions were borne out, and they became ...22 KB (3,382 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- into Kievan Rus', the Crimea, part of the Balkans and defeated the Hungarians at the Battle of Mohi. Mongols remained in control of some of the ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 21:26, 26 February 2023
- near the town of Krapina, in Croatia. The Balkans were home to the iron-working ... * Glenny, Misha. The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers ...62 KB (9,032 words) - 21:37, 4 June 2023
- China, Crimea, and some groups in the Balkans. ===Sikhism=== The Sikh New Year is celebrated as per the Nanakshahi calendar. The epoch of this ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- Illyrians, who settled through the western Balkans. By the seventh century ... enabled Greek culture to penetrate the Balkans, especially after the defeat ...67 KB (9,913 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- the East and West of Europe and bordering the Balkans, which for centuries were under Ottoman rule, Hungary sat on the frontier of civilizations ...26 KB (3,949 words) - 19:12, 4 December 2023
- in Jerusalem led to aggressive actions in the Balkans, and around the Dardanelles. * Major battles ** Destruction of the Ottoman fleet at Sinop ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- #039;s life, nationalism was rife in the Balkans as Ottoman imperial power declined in that region. Nation states were conceived as linguistically ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 16:50, 15 December 2022
- ===Balkans and Near East: Defending Turkey, 1830s=== Lord Palmerston was greatly interested by the diplomatic questions of Eastern Europe. During ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- to have displaced the Scythians from the Balkans, while in south Russia a ... southern European Russia and the eastern Balkans. The Sarmatians flourished ...42 KB (6,192 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- to a general strike. When the crisis in the Balkans came to a head in 1914, war seemed even more inevitable and she organized demonstrations (e ...25 KB (3,897 words) - 19:13, 16 December 2022
- the Pan-Slavic separatist movement in the Balkans. The expansion of such ethnic ... ===War in the Balkans=== Faced with the Russian threat, Austria-Hungary ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- Yellow Moon and many more), in Japan and in the Balkans (mainly Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia and Romania). == Modern Internet, television, movies ...26 KB (4,075 words) - 16:44, 21 January 2024
- Europe in its steady advance through the Balkans and the southern part of ... were spoken throughout Anatolia and the Balkans that differed significantly ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- against the Romanians. The Allied Commander in the Balkans, the French Marshal Louis Franchet d'Esperey wrote to Marshal Ferdinand Foch on July ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- force, and a strategic location between the Balkans and Western Europe. Ljubljana produces about 25 percent of Slovenia's GDP. In 2003, about ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 07:46, 9 March 2023
- Central Asia, but in Eastern Europe and the Balkans as well)—despite billions of dollars in aid being thrown into their “coffers”—still at, basically ...28 KB (3,881 words) - 01:03, 27 July 2023
- is the largest in Greece and the Balkans. url=https://uni-foundation ... the main north–south route through the Balkans along the valleys of the ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
- as the Germans gradually retreated from the Balkans in 1944–45. McNeill, 388–390. Turkey's president conferred with Roosevelt and Churchill ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- with absolute power. He saw the loss of the Balkans and of Cyprus, amassed crippling debts and moved the Empire into what proved to be a disastrous ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- goods far into Italy and into the Balkans, and might have exploited the iron ore deposits that exist on the hill. The discovery of the necropolis ...26 KB (3,983 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- were the socialist parties of the Balkans, Russia and tiny minorities in other countries. To Lenin's surprise, even the German SPD voted ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- through Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, the Balkans and on through the rest of Europe. ===Lecturer at Selly Oak Colleges=== Newbigin accepted ...30 KB (4,685 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2022
- limiting the growing influence of Russia in the Balkans and breaking up the League of the Three Emperors between Germany, Russia and Austria, a mainly ...28 KB (4,114 words) - 23:17, 11 January 2023
- suffered less, with no estimates for Russia or the Balkans. In many European cities and countries, the presence of Jews was blamed for the arrival ...29 KB (4,475 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- and cultural life there than in most of the Balkans during this period. The manuscript of the Povest states that it was translated from a (lost) ...29 KB (4,638 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- had united the Christian countries of the Balkans in opposition to the ailing Ottoman Empire. Clogg, 101–102. When Montenegro declared war on ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- Beginning in 1991, political upheavals in the Balkans such as the breakup of Yugoslavia, displaced about nearly three million people by mid-1992 ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- important routes between Europe and the Balkans—east-west along the Danube River valley from Vienna to the Black Sea; westward along the valley ...32 KB (4,559 words) - 20:15, 20 January 2022
- failing Italian ally in North Africa and the Balkans. The Afrika Korps arrived in Libya in February of 1941. In what was to be one of many advances in ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- ;Italy and the Balkans During the winter the Allies tried to force ... Germany withdrew from the Balkans and held Hungary until February 1945. ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- *Nation, R. Craig. War in the Balkans 1991-2002. Honolulu, Hawaii: University Press of the Pacific, 2004. ISBN 1410217736 *Sells, Michael A. The ...36 KB (5,522 words) - 14:58, 9 February 2022
- Spain in 1492 moved to Egypt and to the Balkans, where they were welcomed ... or the whole of Spain, Sicily, and the Balkans were all under Muslim rule ...71 KB (11,340 words) - 17:01, 18 March 2022
- some through Eastern Europe and the Balkans, some crossing the Adriatic ... Godfrey taking the land route through the Balkans.S. Runciman, [https://www ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- vampire legends he heard while traveling the Balkans, and from this Polidori created The Vampyre (1819), the progenitor of the romantic vampire literary ...36 KB (5,384 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- nineties, Milyukov had thoroughly studied the Balkans, which made him the most competent authority on Balkan politics. Williams, 79. ...37 KB (5,152 words) - 21:52, 28 November 2022
- Kennan proposed conducting covert action in the Balkans aimed at further eroding Moscow's influence. NSC 10/2, "National Security Council ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 17:04, 10 April 2023
- The Gothic and Carpian campaigns in the Balkans during 238–269 C ... former Roman provinces south of the Danube in the Balkans. ...64 KB (9,341 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- and the joint work he had done with Parry in the Balkans. The Parry-Lord work exercised great influence on other scholars, notably Francis P. Magoun ...37 KB (5,219 words) - 00:59, 18 November 2022
- Russians, Chinese and Gypsies from the Balkans. === Cuisine === The cuisine of Sicily shows traces of all the cultures that established themselves ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- civilization” (Russia and the Balkans) developed after the fall of the Roman Empire, thus succeeding Greco-Roman civilization. According to ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- Europe and a balancing influence in the Balkans. Austria's sphere expanded ... shifted Austria's attention to the Balkans. In 1867, the Austrian emperor ...102 KB (14,729 words) - 11:39, 3 May 2023
- COMECON (socialist countries of Eastern Europe, Balkans, Central Asia, China, and Cuba) countries, the only government-sanctioned economic doctrine. ...42 KB (6,187 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- out into the sea at the southern end of the Balkans, the Peloponnesus peninsula (separated from the mainland by the canal of the Isthmus of Corinth ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Life sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Food [[Image:Hanging Meat at a Street Fair 2.JPG|thumb ...43 KB (6,886 words) - 08:03, 20 September 2023
- persons in ten countries in Africa, the Balkans, and Asia each year. The oldest foundation in Minnesota, the Minneapolis Foundation, invests ...39 KB (5,459 words) - 11:07, 10 March 2023
- Captain George Earle, his special emissary to the Balkans, to compile information on Katyn, which he did using contacts in Bulgaria and Romania. He concluded ...48 KB (7,094 words) - 22:04, 3 March 2023
- in wars in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans raised questions of uranium compounds left in the soil (see Gulf War Syndrome). Depleted uranium is ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
