The Balkans
Simon Adams and Michael Gallagher
- North Mankato, Minn. : Smart Apple Media, 2004
- 44 p.
- Flashpoints .
Includes index.
Introduction -- Early history -- Ottoman rule -- Start of the "eastern question" -- Redrawing the map -- End of Ottoman rule -- World War I -- Balkans between the wars -- World War II -- Coming of communism -- Yugoslavia and Albania -- Postwar Greece -- End of communism -- Breakup of Yugoslavia -- Bosnia -- Kosovo -- Balkans today -- Glossary -- Index.
Chronicles the upheavals that have made this part of southeastern Europe a battleground for centuries.
1583406034
9781583406038
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Balkan Peninsula--History--Juvenile literature Former Yugoslav republics--History--Juvenile literature.