Question

What made the balkans an explosive region

Answer 1

The Peninsula of the Balkans is the peninsula that ends Europe in the eastern part of the Mediterranean and faces Italy on one side and Anatolia on the other (Asian Turkey).

Its area is about 400 000 km².

It was formerly known as European Turkey and today corresponds to mainland Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, a small part of Romania, the States born of the break-up of the ancient Yugoslavia (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia and Kosovo); the name of European Turkey applying only to Eastern Thrace

The Balkan Peninsula offers a certain analogy with the Iberian Peninsula. They are the same granitic chains diversely oriented, connected by tertiary flaps.

Three major geological regions are delimited by the three main mountainous directions.

The first one, almost parallel to the Adriatic, has its origin in the Austrian Alps in Croatia, it runs to the South under the name of chain Char and mountains of Pinde it then passes in Greece. In the center, another chain has its origin in the Banat, in the south-west of Romania, crosses Serbia forming a very naked donkey and continues to the South-East, under the names of Rhodope Mountains until Tekir Dagh;

it is a kind of large plateau or crystalline central mass.

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Answer 2

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⏩ The Balkans was a region of geographical and ethinic variation comprising modern day Romania, Bulgaria, Albania,Greece etc... whose inhabitants were broadly known as Slavs.

⏩ A large part of the Balkans was under the control of the Ottoman Empire.

⏩ The spread of the ideas of romantic nationalism in the Balkans together with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire made this region very explosive.

⏩ All through the 19th century the Ottoman Empire sought to strengthen itself through modernisation and internal reforms but with very little success.

⏩ Its European subject nationalities broke away from its control and declared independence.

⏩ The Balkan peoples based their claims for independence and used history to prove that they had once been independent.

⏩ Hence, the rebellious nationalities in the Balkans thought of their struggle as attempts to win back their long-lost Independence.

⏩As the struggle to define their identity as independence, the Balkans area became an area of intense conflict.

⏩The Balkans also became the scene of big power rivalry

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