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• The Balkans is a geographical term, which designates the large
peninsula in the southeastern part of the European continent, connecting Europe to Asia Minor
(Anatolia).
The Balkan
s
Nationalities mixed together.
Ruled by Turkey.
New Governments in dispute with each other.
Russia and Austria
bordered the countries in this
region.
Unstable area.
The first Balkan crisis came in
1908.
From 1912 to 1913 there was a series
of local wars.
Austria declared
war on 28 July 1914.
When I first heard of the assassination (murder)…I felt it was a grave matter… but my fears were soon calmed.. The Kaiser left on his yachting holiday and… still more reassuring, the head of the German army left for his cure in a foreign spa (health resort)…I remember that an influential Hungarian lady called on me and told me that we were taking the murder of the Grand Duke too quickly… it had provoked a storm in Austria… and might lead to war with Serbia… However, the official reports we had did not seem to justify the alarmist view. David Lloyd George,
Memoirs, 1938. David Lloyd George was a government minister in 1914 and became Prime Minister in 1916. His memories have a reputation for inconsistency.
Include: Greece, Albania,
Macedonia, Bulgaria,
Romania, rump Yugoslavia (Serbia and
Montenegro), and Bosnia.
550,000 km2 and a
population of 55 million people.
Surrounded by water on three
sides: the Adriatic Sea to the west,
the Mediterranean Sea (including the Ionian and Aegean seas) to the south and the Black Sea
to the east.
This region was home to Greeks,
Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians,
Dacians and other ancient groups.
Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman
culture and the Latin language.
Area of Europe to
experience the arrival of
farming cultures in
the Neolithic era.
During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars
between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
1912–1913 the First Balkan
War broke out.Two months after the end
of the common war, a Second
Balkan War broke out.
Gained independence
in the 19th century
Slavs arrived in the 6th century.
• GCSE modern world history, second edition by Ben Walsh
• http://cfsworldmusic.wikispaces.com/file/view/balkans-political.GIF/38736590/balkans-political.GIF
• http://www.cotf.edu/earthinfo/balkans/BKdef.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans
Catalina Josefina
Felicitas Francesca