The tumultuous history of the Balkans has been subject to a plethora of conflicting interpretations by local as well as non-Balkan historians.
In an attempt to help overcome the stereotypes that still pervade Balkan history and historiography, Battling over the Balkans concentrates on five principal controversies from the precommunist period: (1) pre-1914 Ottoman and Eastern Christian Orthodox legacies; (2) post-1918 struggles involving state-building; (3) in the interwar period, the effect o.
Period | (1) pre1914 |
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