Balkans
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She’d been traveling all over the Balkans, to untouched places that seem right on the verge of being truly developed for tourism.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
It was Virgil’s ghost, not Homer’s, who haunted the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, centuries when no one west of the Balkans could read ancient Greek.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Of the six countries in the Western Balkans, only Montenegro is further ahead – and it has been in talks for a decade longer.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
It will now offering carpooling services across countries in four regions: Latin America, Southeast Asia, the Balkans in Europe, and beginning in North Africa with Morocco.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The Balkans provided ideal growing conditions for most Mesopotamian crops and livestock, and received those domesticates as a package within 2,000 years of its assembly in the Fertile Crescent.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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