The Balkan Region
The “Balkan” is a Turkish word for mountains and has become the name for the region where the Carpathians also known as the Transylvanian Alps are. This mountainous region is made up of the countries of Romania, Albania, Slovenian Croatia, Bosnian Federation, Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia. The Balkans has a long coast line along the Adriatic and the Black Seas. It is situated where over hundreds of years people migrated and Empires over lapped, bringing with it a history of invaders, some of which stayed and others retreated without leaving a trace. The result has been the creation of a complex mixture of peoples who over the centuries have experienced periods of peaceful co-existence and times of conflict.
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