Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Madgearu, Alexandru

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gordon, Martin
• Madgearu, Alexandru.

Description

x, 233 p. : map; 23 cm.

Summary

"The Balkan Peninsula is often referred to as the "powder keg of Europe," but it is more accurately described as the "melting pot of Europe." In The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins, Alexandru Madgearu discusses the ethnic heterogeneity in modern-day Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia and traces its history." "Madgearu examines the historical evolution that led to the genesis of several conflicts in the Balkans. The affected areas and associated events have transformed the Balkan Peninsula into an intricate ethnic mosaic, where no single group of people has the majority. The various ethnic and religious differences these groups possess have survived the many occupations of this land over the years, whether by the Roman, Byzantine, or Ottoman Empires, and then became manifest when the modern Balkan states were created. With the dissolution of the strong outside forces once dominating the area, the Balkan states - prompted by political propaganda and nationalist ideologies - then used history to support territorial claims, defend ethnic-cleansing actions, and justify conflicts with other countries. The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula argues that the current ethnic structure is the basis for the solution of the disputes between the Balkan states and that history should be used to explain, not legitimize, the conflicts."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Originea medievală a focarelor de conflict din Peninsula Balcanică. English

Alternative Title

Originea medievală a focarelor de conflict din Peninsula Balcanică.

Subjects

• History
• Balkan Peninsula > Ethnic relations > Political aspects
• Balkan Peninsula > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Revised English translation of book originally published in Romania under the title: Originea medievală a focarelor de conflict din Peninsula Balcanică (Bucureşti : Corint Publishing House, 2001).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-217) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780810858466 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0810858460 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007024653

OCLC

• 144570965
• SCSB-12440201

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library