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[[Image:Balkan topo en.jpg|thumb|350px|Balkan peninsula with northwest border [[w:Soča|Soča]]-[[w:Krka, Slovenia|Krka]]-[[w:Sava|Sava]]]] |
[[Image:Balkan topo en.jpg|thumb|350px|Balkan peninsula with northwest border [[w:Soča|Soča]]-[[w:Krka, Slovenia|Krka]]-[[w:Sava|Sava]]]] |
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The '''Balkans''' is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of southeastern [[w:Europe|Europe]]. |
The [[w:Balkans|'''Balkans''']] is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of southeastern [[w:Europe|Europe]]. |
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The region has a combined area of 550000sqkm and an approximate population of 55 million people. The archaic [[w:Greek language|Greek]] name for the ''Balkan Peninsula'' is the Peninsula of [[w:Haemus|Haemus]] (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, ''Chersónisos tou Aímou''). The region takes its name from the [[w:Balkan Mountains|Balkan Mountains]] which run through the centre of [[w:Bulgaria|Bulgaria]] into eastern [[w:Serbia|Serbia]]. |
The region has a combined area of 550000sqkm and an approximate population of 55 million people. The archaic [[w:Greek language|Greek]] name for the ''Balkan Peninsula'' is the Peninsula of [[w:Haemus|Haemus]] (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, ''Chersónisos tou Aímou''). The region takes its name from the [[w:Balkan Mountains|Balkan Mountains]] which run through the centre of [[w:Bulgaria|Bulgaria]] into eastern [[w:Serbia|Serbia]]. |
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**[[Otto von Bismark]], attributed. |
**[[Otto von Bismark]], attributed. |
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The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of southeastern Europe.
The region has a combined area of 550000sqkm and an approximate population of 55 million people. The archaic Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula is the Peninsula of Haemus (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou). The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia.
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- A gay peninsula filled with sprightly people who ate peppered food, drank strong liquors, wore flamboyant clothes, loved and murdered easily and had a splendid talent for starting wars".
- A Long Row of Candles by C. J. Sulzberger
- The next great european war will begin over some damned foolish thing in the Balkans
- Otto von Bismark, attributed.
