Balkans

• 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

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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