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The Bulgarians, who by 922 were in control of most of the Balkans ... John V. A. Fine Jr., The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from ...

Ottoman Emperor Murad I had been expanding his territory into the ... The Balkans coalition initially gained advantage after their first ...

the interests of the people of the Balkans to those of the Great Powers ... and allies of the Slav population in the Balkans who were provoked to respond ...

and in the conflict that swept through the Balkans after Yugoslavia's ... Archont, who led the Serbs into the Balkans in the seventh century, ...

The Serbian Empire was a medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged from the medieval Serbian kingdom in the fourteenth century. The Serbian ...

===Balkans=== The Balkan zadruga (Cyrillic: задруга) is a type ... The zadruga continues to color life in the Balkans; the typically ...

especially favor the unification of the Balkans under the League, seeing ... of outsiders to see an "imagined Balkans--a world where people are ...

for the Manchester Guardian in the Balkans and secretary of the British ... *Brown, Ann C. 1993. Before Knossos: Arthur Evans Travels in the Balkans ...

===Continuing Service in the Balkans=== Documents later came to light revealing that Waldheim's military service continued much later than ...

were also consciously part of the wider Balkans, so, as a sovereign nation ... * Fine, John V.A. The late medieval Balkans: a critical survey from ...

interested in extending its role in the Balkans. Beginning in 1774, Russia ... freely around the Ottoman provinces in the Balkans, suggested that a degree ...

what became the Ottoman space in the Balkans and in Hungary. Religious ... alliance as a threat to their power in the Balkans and planned to break this ...

Slav state. This would help protect the Balkans from outside powers; at ... medieval Serbian empire that had once dominated the Balkans. ...

of all races."Misha Glenny. 2000. The Balkans: nationalism, war, and the ... including those that broke free in the Balkans from Ottoman rule. World ...

Byzantine Empire for the control of the Balkans. During his reign, the Cyrillic ... Bulgarian Empire —covering most of the Balkans —under Simeon I, the ...

===First battles of the Balkans=== The burden of the Ottoman War now ... at the head of the vanguard, crossed the Balkans through the Gate of Trajan ...

His campaigns in the Balkans were aimed not so much at conquest and subjugation as at drawing the Serbs, Bosnians, Wallachians and Bulgarians ...

and Islam was strong. The nations of the Balkans as well as Hungary and Romania ... from the rest of ex-Yugoslavia. In the Balkans this line coincides with ...

rule over the Eastern Mediterranean and Balkans. The city remained capital ... the Muslim world had been removed. As the Balkans also fell, the Ottoman troops ...

routes from Rumelia (Ottoman possessions in the Balkans) to Anatolia. The city came into Ottoman possession after the devastating 1354 earthquake caused ...

River valley, the Pontic steppe and the Balkans. By the end of his short ... ==Campaigns in the Balkans== The annihilation of Khazaria was undertaken ...

Empire's enemies: he invaded the Balkans twice, besieging Constantinople ... a clear path through Illyria into the Balkans, which they invaded in 441 ...

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 ...

The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects in human history, ruling vast territories in North Africa, the Balkans, and ...

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 ...

act Austria-Hungary's aggression into the Balkans, Russia signed an agreement with Serbia to aid it militarily in the face of Austro-Hungarian ...

between "Orthodox Christian and Muslim Balkans." ... Judenrein). Claiming that all areas of the Balkans with substantial Croatian ...

Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East, Northeastern Africa and southern India over several ...

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 ...

John V.A. Fine, Jr. (1987). The Late Medieval Balkans. (Ann Arbor: ... *Fine, Jr., John V.A. (1987). The Late Medieval Balkans. Ann Arbor: ...

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 ...

the crossroads of the ancient world: The Balkans to the West, the Eurasian ... See also the Balkans Regional organizations and Post-Soviet Regional ...

Kitchen: Modern Recipes from Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, Lebanon, Syria and Beyond. Interlink Publishing Group, 2001. ISBN 978-1566564328 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*Forsythia europaea Degen & Bald. Balkans in Albania and Kosovo. *Forsythia giraldiana Lingelsh. Northwest China. *Forsythia japonica Makino ...

L.S. Stavrianos, The Balkans since 1453 (New York: Rinehart, 1958 ... * Jelavich, Barbara. 1983. History of the Balkans, 18th and 19th Centuries ...

quot; following the Ottoman occupation of the Balkans. Certainly, Poland stood between the Ottomans and their hopes of further European conquest. ...

Turkic advance into Central Europe and the Balkans. The confrontations always ... in 1699 secured vast amounts of the Balkans, including Hungary, for ...

recognized the independence of the Balkans and distributed some Ottoman ... army.mil/pdffiles/PUB123.pdf War in the Balkans, 1991-2002] (Carlisle, PA: ...

throughout Europe. Soon afterwards, the Balkans fell to the Ottomans. Although ... later the Bulgars overwhelmed much of the Balkans, threatening Constantinople ...

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 ...

By the fourteenth century, the Roma had reached the Balkans; by 1424 ... traditionally metalwork smiths, from the Balkans, many of whom migrated to ...

E. Blau, The German Campaigns in the Balkans (Spring 1941) (Burd Street ... undertaking of a joint offensive in the Balkans with the Greek strongholds ...

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 ...

Later, however, when other Ottoman provinces in the Balkans began ... inspired freedom struggles throughout the Balkans, immediately spilling over ...

quot; civilization of Russia and the Balkans, and from the Greco-Roman ... *Contributor, Greece, in The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria, Serbia ...

Montenegro, meaning "black mountain" is a small, mountainous state in south-west Balkans, bordering Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina ...

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 ...

and arranging (in Central Europe, the Balkans, Algeria, and Turkey). However, the outbreak of World War I forced him to stop these expeditions ...

from diverse ethnic elements of Anatolia, the Balkans, Eurasia and the Black Sea region and thrived in a culture of intense political strife, with ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula of Southern Europe that is home to three ethnic constituent peoples: Bosniaks ...

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 ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Samovar.silver.jpg|thumbnail|right|A conical urn-shaped silver-plated samovar]] ...

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 ...

*Lampe, John R. Balkans into Southeastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2006. ISBN 978-0333793473 *Miller, Marshall Lee. Bulgaria in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

medieval even in Stoker's time. The Balkans had only recently shaken ... cases rose dramatically in Hungary and the Balkans. From the Balkans, the ...

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 ...

* Jurisdiction—Disputes in the Balkans, Southern Italy, and Sicily over whether the Western or Eastern Church had jurisdiction. * Ecumenical ...

created the Indo-European peoples of the Balkans, believed to be the ancient ... Adriatic Sea and gave Rome an excuse to invade the Balkans. ...

boys often captured in war and mainly from the Balkans; Willocks (2006). Tim Willocks fictional character, Mattias Tannhauser was captured as ...

and became the lingua franca of the Balkans and Eastern Europe.Horace ... the reform. Today, many languages in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and northern ...

of millions of Muslims expelled from the Balkans and Russia, and would consider ... Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus ...

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 ...

The Goths and their allies entrenched in the Balkans consumed his attention. The Gothic crisis was bad enough that his co-Emperor Gratian relinquished ...

Eastern and Western Roman Empires: he invaded the Balkans twice and encircled Constantinople in the second invasion. He marched through France as far ...

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 ...

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 ...

with various separatist groups throughout the Balkans (especially groups of Italians, though also some Slavic groups), although without much success ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

China, Crimea, and some groups in the Balkans. ===Sikhism=== The Sikh New Year is celebrated as per the Nanakshahi calendar. The epoch of this ...

Illyrians, who settled through the western Balkans. By the seventh century ... enabled Greek culture to penetrate the Balkans, especially after the defeat ...

the East and West of Europe and bordering the Balkans, which for centuries were under Ottoman rule, Hungary sat on the frontier of civilizations ...

in Jerusalem led to aggressive actions in the Balkans, and around the Dardanelles. * Major battles ** Destruction of the Ottoman fleet at Sinop ...

#039;s life, nationalism was rife in the Balkans as Ottoman imperial power declined in that region. Nation states were conceived as linguistically ...

===Balkans and Near East: Defending Turkey, 1830s=== Lord Palmerston was greatly interested by the diplomatic questions of Eastern Europe. During ...

to have displaced the Scythians from the Balkans, while in south Russia a ... southern European Russia and the eastern Balkans. The Sarmatians flourished ...

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 ...

the Pan-Slavic separatist movement in the Balkans. The expansion of such ethnic ... ===War in the Balkans=== Faced with the Russian threat, Austria-Hungary ...

Yellow Moon and many more), in Japan and in the Balkans (mainly Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia and Romania). == Modern Internet, television, movies ...

Europe in its steady advance through the Balkans and the southern part of ... were spoken throughout Anatolia and the Balkans that differed significantly ...

against the Romanians. The Allied Commander in the Balkans, the French Marshal Louis Franchet d'Esperey wrote to Marshal Ferdinand Foch on July ...

force, and a strategic location between the Balkans and Western Europe. Ljubljana produces about 25 percent of Slovenia's GDP. In 2003, about ...

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 ...

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 ...

as the Germans gradually retreated from the Balkans in 1944–45. McNeill, 388–390. Turkey's president conferred with Roosevelt and Churchill ...

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 ...

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 ...

were the socialist parties of the Balkans, Russia and tiny minorities in other countries. To Lenin's surprise, even the German SPD voted ...

through Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, the Balkans and on through the rest of Europe. ===Lecturer at Selly Oak Colleges=== Newbigin accepted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

had united the Christian countries of the Balkans in opposition to the ailing Ottoman Empire. Clogg, 101–102. When Montenegro declared war on ...

Beginning in 1991, political upheavals in the Balkans such as the breakup of Yugoslavia, displaced about nearly three million people by mid-1992 ...

important routes between Europe and the Balkans—east-west along the Danube River valley from Vienna to the Black Sea; westward along the valley ...

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 ...

;Italy and the Balkans During the winter the Allies tried to force ... Germany withdrew from the Balkans and held Hungary until February 1945. ...

*Nation, R. Craig. War in the Balkans 1991-2002. Honolulu, Hawaii: University Press of the Pacific, 2004. ISBN 1410217736 *Sells, Michael A. The ...

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 ...

some through Eastern Europe and the Balkans, some crossing the Adriatic ... Godfrey taking the land route through the Balkans.S. Runciman, [https://www ...

vampire legends he heard while traveling the Balkans, and from this Polidori created The Vampyre (1819), the progenitor of the romantic vampire literary ...

nineties, Milyukov had thoroughly studied the Balkans, which made him the most competent authority on Balkan politics. Williams, 79. ...

Kennan proposed conducting covert action in the Balkans aimed at further eroding Moscow's influence. NSC 10/2, "National Security Council ...

The Gothic and Carpian campaigns in the Balkans during 238–269 C ... former Roman provinces south of the Danube in the Balkans. ...

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 ...

Russians, Chinese and Gypsies from the Balkans. === Cuisine === The cuisine of Sicily shows traces of all the cultures that established themselves ...

civilization” (Russia and the Balkans) developed after the fall of the Roman Empire, thus succeeding Greco-Roman civilization. According to ...

Europe and a balancing influence in the Balkans. Austria's sphere expanded ... shifted Austria's attention to the Balkans. In 1867, the Austrian emperor ...

COMECON (socialist countries of Eastern Europe, Balkans, Central Asia, China, and Cuba) countries, the only government-sanctioned economic doctrine. ...

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 ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Life sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Food [[Image:Hanging Meat at a Street Fair 2.JPG|thumb ...

persons in ten countries in Africa, the Balkans, and Asia each year. The oldest foundation in Minnesota, the Minneapolis Foundation, invests ...

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 ...

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 ...

in 1994 and in Bosnia during the war in the Balkans between 1992 and 1995, the international community has been slow to develop mechanisms to intervene ...

in 1989, the organization became drawn into the Balkans while building better links with former potential enemies to the east, which culminated with ...

applied. In the nineteenth century, peoples of the Balkans used guerrilla tactics to fight the Ottoman empire. In the 100 years war between England and ...

Forebears of Croatia's Slav population migrated into the Balkans and along the Dalmatian coast in the sixth century, displacing or absorbing ...

among other conflict zones, Afghanistan, the Balkans, the Congo, Iraq, and Sri Lanka. ===The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent ...

The international community's reluctance to intervene in the Balkans is less understandable, though, than with respect to Chechnya. As a ...

Istria to weaken Italian claims in the western Balkans before WWI. === After World War II === After WWII the irredentism movement faded away in ...

Kennedy toured Europe, the Soviet Union, the Balkans and the Middle East to gather background information for his Harvard senior honors thesis. He spent ...

popular, especially in a large part of the Balkans and in Ireland. In Priština, Kosovo, a five-story picture of the former president was permanently ...

him free to expand Hungarian power in the Balkans. Hungarian troops invaded ... influence is not as pronounced as in the Balkans. Cakes and sweets in Hungary ...

htm Relationship between the campaigns in the Balkans and the invasion of Russia] and [http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/balkan/append.htm associated ...

Analysis in Peripheral Lymphocytes of Gulf War and Balkans War Veterans," Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 211-219, 2003. In early 2004, the ...

Homeric tradition and the oral epics of the Balkans, suggest that early writing shows clear traces of older oral poetic traditions, including the use ...

later joined NATO peace-keeping forces in the Balkans in June 1999. Relations with the West have also been stained by Russia's relationship ...

French and American revolutions, provinces in the Balkans revived memories of their medieval kingdoms and began freedom struggles. One by one, the Ottoman ...

In 513 B.C.E. Darius the Great ordered a campaign into the Balkans. Herodotus IV,83 He conquered Thrace Herodotus V,1 and Macedon. Macedonian ...

Norway, 6 in Denmark, 9 in Germany, 21 in the Balkans, 26 in Italy and 59 in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Chester Wilmot, The Struggle ...

Portugal, Poland, the Baltic Republics, the Balkans, Brazil, Cuba, China, and Japan, among others. Even in the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt wielded ...

Allies had abandoned any idea of moving into the Balkans or central Europe via Italy, and he went along with Roosevelt's plan for the United Nations ...

Demetres Tziovas, Greece and the Balkans: Identities, Perceptions and Cultural Encounters Since the Enlightenment; William Yale, The Near East: ...

come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans." ... Bulgaria, that little country between the Danube and the Balkans, ...

campaign against the Kingdom of Dacia in the Balkans instead.Julius Caesar, [https://archive.org/details/conquestofgaul00juli/ The Conquest of Gaul] Revised ...

2007), Central Europe, the Carpathians, and the Balkans (Durham 2008), some sites in Ukraine and in western Russia. Neanderthal remains also have ...

1912 Kievskaya Mysl sent him to the Balkans as its war correspondent, where he covered the two Balkan Wars for the next year and became a close ...

during the fifth century, and beyond to the Balkans from the sixth century. In the seventh century, the territory of modern Ukraine was the core ...

had 206 divisions on the Eastern Front, 24 in the Balkans, and 22 in Italy. Fifteen divisions were in the process of formation in Germany, but there ...

and over-exploitation. It inhabited the Balkans, the Italian Peninsula, southern France, and the Iberian Peninsula. It was a very popular object ...

Empire by the creation of new states in the Balkans. The territory was annexed in 1907 and put under joint rule by the governments of both Austria and ...

placed on his tomb, and when she toured in the Balkans, always made a detour to visit his grave. Until the end of her life, she continued to sign official ...

this time he journeyed to the Balkans and visited Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, as well as Pompeii and Rome, filling nearly 80 sketchbooks ...

supporters of NATO and EU policy in the Balkans, in order to prevent genocide in Yugoslavia, it contributed to the toppling of the Taliban-regime ...

and the Ottoman Empire again clashed in the Balkans. The Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) was popular among Russians, who supported the independence ...