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1. Übersetzung Deutsch Serbisch Einführung zu Serbien: Der offizielle Name von Serbien ist Republik von Serbien. Es liegt in Südöstlichem Europa und grenzt auf Ungarn, Bulgarien, Rumänien, Albanien, Republik von Makedonien, Kroatien, Montenegro und Bosnien und He...
2. Gagauzia On December 23, 1994, Gagauzia became a "national-territorial autonomous unit" within Moldavia. The date is now a Gagauzian holiday. Many European human-rights organizations have recognized Gagauzia as a successful model for resolving ethnic conflict...
3. Übersetzung Serbisch Einführung zu Serbien: Der offizielle Name von Serbien ist Republik von Serbien. Es liegt in Südöstlichem Europa und grenzt auf Ungarn, Bulgarien, Rumänien, Albanien, Republik von Makedonien, Kroatien, Montenegro und Bosnien und He...
4. Übersetzung Deutsch Mazedonisch Einführung zu Mazedonien:  Republik Mazedonien liegt auf der Balkan Halbinsel in Südöstlichem Europa. Mazedonien grenzt auf Serbien, Griechenland, Albanien und Bulgarien. Es ist ein Mitglied Vereinter Nationen, Welthandelsorganisat...
5. Travel in Kosovo Though many people frown on travelling to areas of conflict or former places of conflict travel to Kosovo is safe and eye-opening for those willing to be the least bit adventurous. Since 1999 it has been under the protection of the UN, a watch that m...
6. Übersetzung Deutsch Kroatisch Einführung zu Kroatien: Der offizielle Name von Kroatien ist Republik von Kroatien, es liegt in Mitteleuropa, auf dem Balkan. Hauptstadt von Kroatien ist Zagreb. Kroatien grenzt an Slovenien, Serbien, Ungarn, Montenegro, Bosnien und Herzegowina...
7. The Balkan Wars The Balkan wars were a series of conflicts that led to the disintegration of the former Republic of Yugoslavia.  Occurring over a decade-long period between 1991 and 2001, these conflicts ultimately affected all six former Yugoslav republics--al...
8. Slovenia Slovenia's location has given it both benefits and hardships. The Western limit of the Slavic immigration; the Austro-Hungarian Empire's access to the Istrian coast; Istria and Trieste an early focus of Cold War hostilities; a rapid development of de...
9. Croatia In the painting, the Croats reach the Adriatic coast, at the end of their migration from north of the Carpathians, in the early 7th Century. They are thinking of the promise of this land. Some of them will marry into the local people, Romans and Ill...
10. John Fenzel I'm the author of the soon-to-be released international suspense thriller, The Lazarus Covenant. I'm also a career Army Special Forces Officer, husband to Ciri Fenzel and father to three great kids! This lens will give you a snapshot of who I am, my...
11. Kosovo: Rumelia to Resolution The "NEWBORN" obelisk unveiled at the celebration of the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence proclaimed earlier that day, 17 February 2008, in Pristina. This lens tracks the formation of Kosovo from its creation out of the Ottoman Province of Ru...
12. The Austro-Hungarian Empire and its Legacy One late spring day a treaty was signed (The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867) which would seal the fate of Europe through two World Wars. Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria became also the King of Hungary. The two halves of the new empire would be...
13. Bosnia and Herzegovina: A History The picture accompanying this introduction depicts the signing of the Bosnia Peace treaty of 1995. At least two of the people in it, Milosovec and Tudman may be guilty of the most severe war crimes, employing ethnic cleansing to carve up the provinc...
14. Übersetzung Kroatisch Einführung zu Kroatien: Der offizielle Name von Kroatien ist Republik von Kroatien, es liegt in Mitteleuropa, auf dem Balkan. Hauptstadt von Kroatien ist Zagreb. Kroatien grenzt an Slovenien, Serbien, Ungarn, Montenegro, Bosnien und Herzegowina...
15. Bosniaks The Bosniaks are a) a South Slavic people, living mainly in Bosnia & Herzegovina, but also in Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo, and the Republic of Macedonia; b) Muslim and c) adhering to a common Bosnian culture, history, and language. In the Eng...
16. Macedonia Macedonia is used as a term to describe a large region of the Balkan Peninsula in Eastern Europe. It is also used to describe a small country that used to be a component of Yugoslavia and is now either "The Republic of Macedonia" (RoM) or "The Former...
17. Silver fir The Silver fir - Abies alba is a tree growing to a height of 150 feet; abundant in the mountainous regions of central and southern Europe.
18. The Empires and Enclaves of Europe If you live in an empire it may not matter that you don't like your neighbors much. You are both too busy fighting the remote government or trying to pay your exorbitant taxes. But what if that emperor goes away and you now live in a nation-state cre...
19. The Ottoman Empire and its Political Legacy Of all empires, the Ottoman Empire seems to have left behind the most complex and prolific checkerboard of enclaves and exclaves. The pattern of pockets of peoples left behind in the territories of the successor nation-states is compounded by the rel...
20. Yugoslavia Yugoslavia - the name means "home of the Southern Slavs" - was always an uncomfortable confederation of peoples of various ethnicities (not 'just' Slavs). Its dissolution led to bloody wars and ethnic cleansing in recent decades, but this was nothing...