the adriatic balkans former yugoslavia and albania
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The Adriatic Balkans
Former Yugoslavia and Albania
Objectives
• Identify the Balkan Peninsula on a blank map.
• Identify the Adriatic Sea on a blank map.
• Explain how physical geography resulted in many ethnic groups.
• Recount how an invasion in the Middle Ages injected another minority group into the area – one which resulted in resentment.
• Discuss how the nation of Yugoslavia broke up.
To secede is to have a part of a country break away and become independent.
Terms and Places
Civil War is a war within a country.
The Balkans are the mountains of southeast Europe.
An ethnic group is a group of people that share a culture.
An embargo is a decision not to trade with a nation.
You can’t tell us what to do in
our own country!
But we CAN stop trading
with you!
What if we just left?
Balkanization means to divide ethnic groups against each other, as the Balkans did.
To the north of this area lies Austria and Hungary.
To the west lies Italy and the Adriatic
Sea.
To the south lies Greece.
To the east of lies Romania and
Bulgaria, the Black Sea Balkans.
The Adriatic Balkans lie in southeastern Europe.
The area is marked by two remarkable features of physical geography.
One is a beautiful coastline along the Adriatic, studded with many islands.
The other is the rugged mountains of the interior.
The population for this area is moderate to low compared to other European nations.
What does the graph show about the population in this area?
The rural population is larger than most countries when compared to its urban population.
Much of this region’s history can be traced back to its invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire was Muslim, while the Balkan people were not.
Worst of all was the practice of the Janissaries: The Ottoman Empire took the sons of the Balkan people away from their parents and made them soldiers of the Empire.
The Balkan nations were required to pay taxes to the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire sometimes chose their noblemen.
The Ottoman Empire was finally expelled during World War One, but many Muslims remained in the Balkans.
Baltic States
Ukraine and
Moldova
Russia
Adriatic Balkans
The Adriatic Balkans is the only part of Eastern Europe that was not dominated by Soviet Russia
during the 20th Century.
The Carpathians
Poland and Belarus
After World War Two, Yugoslavia was united and controlled by a powerful leader named Marshal
Tito.
After Tito died in the early 1990s, Yugoslavia broke up in a bitter
civil war.
Even before Yugoslavia broke up into five nations, the mountains had divided the people into diverse ethnic groups.
The Slovenians and the Croatians (yellow) were Catholic and used the Roman Alphabet, like speakers of English do.
The Serbs and their neighbors to the south were Orthodox in religion and used the Cyrillic Alphabet.
What ethnic group is represented by bright green? What is the history of this group?
Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, and Albanian are similar but different languages.
Which group holds the majority?
Which country is the most diverse?
The Serbs wanted to drive out or kill the Muslims and include Bosnia-Herzegovina in their country.
This is where the war was the worst.
People were shocked that in a modern European country peace could still so suddenly change to war.
People were sniped on the streets of residential neighborhoods.
The rest of Europe did nothing.
Eventually, the Serbs built concentration camps.
Bosnian (Muslim) People were pushed out of areas closest to the Serb territory.
The Germans and the French refused to get involved. Finally, it was up to the Americans
to put a stop to the bloodshed.
Which color encircles the Balkan Peninsula?
Which body of water is the Adriatic Sea?
The Adriatic
Sea
The
Adriatic
Sea
The Adriatic Sea
The Adriatic SeaThe
Adriatic Sea
What empire dominated this area from the Middle Ages until the end of World War One?
Which of the below best describes the physical geography of the Balkans?
Rugged mountains and a coastline with many islands
Wide plains with slow moving rivers
A swampy coastline with broad, navigable inlets
The Communist Soviet Union
The Imperial Austrian Empire
The Muslim Ottoman Empire
The Pre-Fascist German Empire
The Balkan Peninsula’s economy is:Richer than most of Western Europe.
About the same as most of Western Europe
Poorer than most of Western Europe
Which sea borders this area?
The Adriatic Sea
The Baltic Sea
The Black Sea
The Ionian Sea
Please read “Five Balkan Nations.” World Studies: Europe and Russia. Pearson-Prentice-Hall, 2005. pg. 181.
“Still on the Frontline.” YouTube: Amnesty International. http://youtu.be/ZWwNITPX2vk (13:12)