The wars of the Balkan Peninsula : their medieval origins / Alexandru Madgearu ; Martin Gordon, consulting editor.

• Past -- The ethnic aspects -- The slavization of the Balkan Peninsula -- The expansion of the Albanians -- The Vlachs (Aromanians) a people without state -- Deportations and colonizations made by the Byzantine and Ottoman empires -- The political aspects -- The downfall and recovery of the Byzantine domination and the rise of Bulgaria -- The small Slavic states from the central and western Balkans -- The Byzantine offensive (ninth-eleventh centuries) -- Pax Byzantina and the centrifugal trends in the eleventh-twelfth centuries -- The inheritors of the Byzantine imperialism -- The rise and the breaking up of great Serbia -- The Ottoman conquest -- Pax Ottomana -- The religious aspects -- The confrontation between Rome and Constantinople in the Balkans -- The spreading of Islam in the Balkans: a new differentiation -- The present. historical propaganda and the Balkan nationalist ideologies -- Theories of ethnogenesis with political implications -- The Greeks -- The Albanians -- The Bulgarians -- The Serbs and the Croats -- The Vlachs (Aromanians) -- The legitimation of expansionism by the abuse of history -- Kosovo- Serbian or Albanian? -- The historical Macedonia - the apple of discord among Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia.

Ämnesord

Balkan Peninsula  -- History. (LCSH)

Balkan Peninsula  -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects. (LCSH)

Balkanhalvön  -- historia -- politiska aspekter (sao)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Kn Historia: Balkanländerna

Klassifikation

DR39 (LCC)

949.6 (DDC)

Kn (kssb/8)