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  2. Kuči (tribe) - Wikipedia

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    Kuči (Montenegrin and Serbian: Кучи, Kuči; Albanian: Kuçi, pronounced) is a tribe of Albanian origin, historically located in modern central and eastern Montenegro (Brda region), north-east of Podgorica, extending along the border with Albania.

  3. Balkan slave trade - Wikipedia

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    The Balkan slave trade contributed to the establishment of the Republic of Venice as a prosperous trading empire in the Mediterranean Sea in the early Middle Ages. In the 15th century, the Balkan slave trade was closed of from Europe due to the Muslim Ottoman conquest of the Balkans, and consequently integrated to the Ottoman slave trade. The ...

  4. List of adjectivals and demonyms for subcontinental regions

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    The following is a list of adjectival forms of subcontinental regions in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these subcontinental regions.

  5. Sclaveni - Wikipedia

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    The first Balkan theme was created in Thrace in 680 AD. [63] By 695, a second theme, that of " Hellas " (or "Helladikoi"), was established, probably in eastern central Greece . [ 63 ] Subduing the Slavs in the themes was simply a matter of accommodating the needs of the Slavic elites and providing them with incentives for their inclusion into ...

  6. History of the Balkans - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    Between 2004 and 2013, an estimated. 3,350,449. people were forced from their homes, deprived of their land or had their livelihoods damaged because they lived in the path of a World Bank project.

  8. List of fictional European countries - Wikipedia

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    Socialist Republic of Italy: A syndicalist state in Southern Europe featured in the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg. Ithuvania: Eastern European country used as an experiment, featured in The Far Side cartoon books. Ixania: a small Balkan country of little global importance in Eric Ambler's The Dark Frontier.

  9. Operation Grapple (Yugoslavia) - Wikipedia

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    UNPROFOR deployments in early 1993. Soldiers of the Cheshire Regiment removing bodies from a building in the village Ahmići in April 1993. Sea Harriers from HMS Invincible based in the Adriatic Sea during Operation Grapple, supporting UNPROFOR in Bosnia.