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The Corridor X is one of the pan-European corridors.It runs between Salzburg in Austria and Thessaloniki in Greece.The corridor passes through Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia, and Greece.
The origin of the word Balkan is obscure; it may be related to Turkish bālk 'mud' (from Proto-Turkic *bal 'mud, clay; thick or gluey substance', cf. also Turkic bal 'honey'), and the Turkish suffix -an 'swampy forest' [9] or Persian bālā-khāna 'big high house'. [10] It was used mainly during the time of the Ottoman Empire.
The road starts in Albania at either Durrës (SH4) or Vlorë (A2), both situated on the Adriatic coast.It intersects at Rrogozhine (SH7, SH3) and runs towards Elbasan.It then crosses the border with North Macedonia at the Ohrid lake and then runs north to Tetovo mainly as a 2-lanes single-carriageway.
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Proposed confederate state of Balkania: Kosovo (light red), Serbia (yellow), and Montenegro (light blue) [1] [2]. Balkania, otherwise known as the Balkan Federation, was the name of a hypothetical confederacy proposed as an independent successor state to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the Balkans, suggested by the Kosovo Albanian politician and human rights defender Adem Demaçi in 1996.
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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 ...
The book's title draws from historical symbols of the Balkans. The black lamb "is the symbol, seen in a gypsy rite in Macedonia, of false -- and thus of impious -- sacrifice" while the grey falcon "is an enigmatic figure in a Slav folksong about a military defeat in the year 1389". [5] West's original intent was to rapidly write the work.