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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 ...
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  • Ottoman Emperor Murad I had been expanding his territory into the ... The Balkans coalition initially gained advantage after their first ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and in the conflict that swept through the Balkans after Yugoslavia's ... Archont, who led the Serbs into the Balkans in the seventh century, ...
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  • The Serbian Empire was a medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged from the medieval Serbian kingdom in the fourteenth century. The Serbian ...
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  • ===Balkans=== The Balkan zadruga (Cyrillic: задруга) is a type ... The zadruga continues to color life in the Balkans; the typically ...
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  • especially favor the unification of the Balkans under the League, seeing ... of outsiders to see an "imagined Balkans--a world where people are ...
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  • for the Manchester Guardian in the Balkans and secretary of the British ... *Brown, Ann C. 1993. Before Knossos: Arthur Evans Travels in the Balkans ...
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  • ===Continuing Service in the Balkans=== Documents later came to light revealing that Waldheim's military service continued much later than ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • interested in extending its role in the Balkans. Beginning in 1774, Russia ... freely around the Ottoman provinces in the Balkans, suggested that a degree ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Slav state. This would help protect the Balkans from outside powers; at ... medieval Serbian empire that had once dominated the Balkans. ...
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  • of all races."Misha Glenny. 2000. The Balkans: nationalism, war, and the ... including those that broke free in the Balkans from Ottoman rule. World ...
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  • Byzantine Empire for the control of the Balkans. During his reign, the Cyrillic ... Bulgarian Empire —covering most of the Balkans —under Simeon I, the ...
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  • ===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 ...
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  • His campaigns in the Balkans were aimed not so much at conquest and subjugation as at drawing the Serbs, Bosnians, Wallachians and Bulgarians ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • routes from Rumelia (Ottoman possessions in the Balkans) to Anatolia. The city came into Ottoman possession after the devastating 1354 earthquake caused ...
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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 ...
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  • Empire's enemies: he invaded the Balkans twice, besieging Constantinople ... a clear path through Illyria into the Balkans, which they invaded in 441 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects in human history, ruling vast territories in North Africa, the Balkans, and ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • act Austria-Hungary's aggression into the Balkans, Russia signed an agreement with Serbia to aid it militarily in the face of Austro-Hungarian ...
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  • between "Orthodox Christian and Muslim Balkans." ... Judenrein). Claiming that all areas of the Balkans with substantial Croatian ...
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  • Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East, Northeastern Africa and southern India over several ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • John V.A. Fine, Jr. (1987). The Late Medieval Balkans. (Ann Arbor: ... *Fine, Jr., John V.A. (1987). The Late Medieval Balkans. Ann Arbor: ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the crossroads of the ancient world: The Balkans to the West, the Eurasian ... See also the Balkans Regional organizations and Post-Soviet Regional ...
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  • Kitchen: Modern Recipes from Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, Lebanon, Syria and Beyond. Interlink Publishing Group, 2001. ISBN 978-1566564328 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • *Forsythia europaea Degen & Bald. Balkans in Albania and Kosovo. *Forsythia giraldiana Lingelsh. Northwest China. *Forsythia japonica Makino ...
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  • L.S. Stavrianos, The Balkans since 1453 (New York: Rinehart, 1958 ... * Jelavich, Barbara. 1983. History of the Balkans, 18th and 19th Centuries ...
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  • quot; following the Ottoman occupation of the Balkans. Certainly, Poland stood between the Ottomans and their hopes of further European conquest. ...
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  • Turkic advance into Central Europe and the Balkans. The confrontations always ... in 1699 secured vast amounts of the Balkans, including Hungary, for ...
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  • recognized the independence of the Balkans and distributed some Ottoman ... army.mil/pdffiles/PUB123.pdf War in the Balkans, 1991-2002] (Carlisle, PA: ...
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  • throughout Europe. Soon afterwards, the Balkans fell to the Ottomans. Although ... later the Bulgars overwhelmed much of the Balkans, threatening Constantinople ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • By the fourteenth century, the Roma had reached the Balkans; by 1424 ... traditionally metalwork smiths, from the Balkans, many of whom migrated to ...
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  • E. Blau, The German Campaigns in the Balkans (Spring 1941) (Burd Street ... undertaking of a joint offensive in the Balkans with the Greek strongholds ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Later, however, when other Ottoman provinces in the Balkans began ... inspired freedom struggles throughout the Balkans, immediately spilling over ...
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  • quot; civilization of Russia and the Balkans, and from the Greco-Roman ... *Contributor, Greece, in The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria, Serbia ...
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  • Montenegro, meaning "black mountain" is a small, mountainous state in south-west Balkans, bordering Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and arranging (in Central Europe, the Balkans, Algeria, and Turkey). However, the outbreak of World War I forced him to stop these expeditions ...
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