This is something a person that hasn't lived there will never understand, no matter how much you try to explain it to them, but I'll try anyways. There has always been tension in the Balkans, ever since there was the nations which are there today. Nationalism is one of the major reasons for tension. There have been hundreds of wars that take place fully or partially in the Balkans, for various reasons. Every single nation there has a party which wants to take a piece of it's neighbour and make a 'united' country. The people are generally tough with a mentality Western society would call disfunction, have high morale and during times of conflict, extremely brutal.
Italy is a country that is not considered part of the Balkans region. The Balkans typically include countries in Southeastern Europe such as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia.
Parascheva of the Balkans died in 10##.
Silence of the Balkans was created in 1998.
Imagining the Balkans was created in 1997.
The Balkans (or the Balkan Peninsula) is located in Southeastern Europe.
The majority of the population of the Balkans and Russia are the Slavs.
The country that is landlocked in the Western Balkans is Macedonia.
The Scent of Rain in the Balkans was created in 1986.
Al Jazeera Balkans was created in 2011.
Dance Party in the Balkans was created in 2007.
The Ottoman Empire.
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