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The Western Balkans is a political neologism coined to refer to Albania and the territory of the former ... Slovenia and Croatia declared independence on 25 June ...
Slovenia, [a] officially the Republic of Slovenia, [b] is a country in Central Europe. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short coastline within the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, which is part of the Mediterranean sea . [ 15 ]
The Balkan Peninsula is located in Southeastern Europe and the following countries and territories occupy land within the Balkans either exclusively or partially: Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia (approximately the southern half), Greece , Kosovo , Montenegro , North Macedonia , Romania (the Dobrudja region), Serbia ...
Slovenia's Adriatic coastline stretches approximately 47 km (29 mi) from Italy to Croatia. Its part south of Sava river belongs to Balkan peninsula – Balkans. The term karst originated in southwestern Slovenia's Karst Plateau (Slovene: Kras), a limestone region of underground rivers, gorges, and caves, between Ljubljana and the Mediterranean.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 February 2025. Geographic region in Europe Topographical map of Southeastern Europe Southeast Europe or Southeastern Europe is a geographical sub-region of Europe, consisting primarily of the region of the Balkans, as well as adjacent regions and archipelagos. There are overlapping and conflicting ...
The History of the Balkan Peninsula; From the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1966) Stanković, Vlada, ed. (2016). The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-1326-5. Stavrianos, L.S. The Balkans Since 1453 (1958), major scholarly history; online free to ...
Flag of the Yugoslav Germans. The Shwova of Yugoslavia (German: Jugoslawienschwaben, Serbo-Croatian: jugoslovenski Svabos/југословенски Немци, jugoslavenski Svabos/југославенски Svabos) is a term for Germanic-speakers who form a minority group in former Yugoslavia, namely Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina or Slovenia.
The 2014 IBD analysis comparison of Western Balkan and Middle Eastern populations also found negligible gene flow between 16th and 19th century during the Islamization of the Balkans. [ 53 ] According to a 2014 admixture analysis of Western Balkan, the South Slavs show a genetic uniformity.