Balkans
: Balkan redirects here. For the Turkmen province, see: Balkan Province
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The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe southeastern Europe (see the Definitions and boundaries section below). The region has a combined area of 728,000 kmē and a population of around 53 million.
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Europe - Definitions and boundaries - 728,000 kmē
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The region takes its name from the Balkan mountains which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia.
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Balkan mountains - Bulgaria - Serbia
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Partition in Iraq
Good commentary from Mike Tuggle:Iraq IS a multicultural nation, which is why the Neocons have resisted partition for so long, just as the US resisted partition as a solution in that unfortunate multicultural experiment in the Balkans called Bosnia?even to this day, UN troops are the only thing preventing a resumption of inter-ethnic conflict.
Karadzic arrest boosts Balkans, international justice
The Bosnian Serb leader, indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal on 15 counts including genocide, had been on the run for 13 years.
Jasmina Te?anovi?: My neighbor Radovan Karadzic (essay)
My neighbor Radovan Karadzic by Jasmina Te?anovi? Radovan Karadzic, the poet of Serbian war crimes, one of the two most wanted criminals in the Balkans, the guy with fluffy locks, was captured last night in Belgrade, Serbia. According to the first rumors, he was found in my own neighborhood, where he supposedly frequented in a popular right-wing restaurant where people from NGOs were unwelcome. Karadzic is currently held in the special court for war crimes in Belgrade, and is about to be extradited to the international war crime tribunal in The Hague. Slobodan Milosevic preceeded him in this same course some years ago. To judge by the chatter on my B92 blog and the phone messages I get from my friends: as I long suspected, "Europe's Osama bin Laden" and I have been neighbors. We shared the same food, saw the same beggars in downtown Belgrade where he had been hiding all these years, a genocidal butcher disguised as a New Age quack. A journalist who lives close to me sent me an sms: Karadzic must have been drinking beer with our gypsy neighbor in the street. As we all suspected, or as some of us surely knew: Karadzic was hiding from justice behind our names and our daily lives, using the Serbian population as his living shields....
Darijo Srna owes a huge debt to his father
The harrowing tale of war-time strife in the Balkans that underlies the Croatia midfielder's career will touch the hearts of any fan still seeking a nation to support at Euro 2008, Jonathan Wilson reports.
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