Balkan inggih punika nama sajarah lan nama géografis kanggé nedahaken satunggiling tlatah ing Éropa Kidul-wétan. Tlatah punika wiyaripun antawis 550,000 km² kanthi sing ndunungi kinten-kinten of 55 yuta. Nami saking basa Yunani kanggé tlatah Ujung Balkan  inggih punika Ujung Haemus (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou). Tlatah punika mendhet nama saking Gunung Balkan ingkang mujur saking Bulgaria tengah dumugi tlatah Serbia wétan.

Dhéfinisi lan wates

Ujung Balkan 
Tlatah Balkan dipunhubungaken déning toya saking tigang sisih, inggih punika: Seganten Cemeng utawi Black Sea ing sisih wétan, lan cabang saking Seganten Mediterania utawi Mediterranean Sea ing sisih kidul lan kilèn (kalebet seganten Adriatik, seganten Ionian, seganten Aegean lan seganten Marmara).

Balkan 
Idhèntitas Balkan dipundominasi déning posisi geografinipun; kanthi historis tlatah punika minangka dalan simpang saking rupi-rupi budaya. Dados pepanggihan antawis Basa Latin lan Basa Yunani rikala jaman Kakaisaran Romawi, dados tujuan mlebetipun bangsa Pagan Slavs, tlatah ingkang dados patemonipun agami Kristen Orthodox lan Katulik, ugi dados titik patemon antawis agami Islam lan Kristen, lan minangka tujuan tumrap pengungsi Yahudi wekdal mangsa Inquisition.

Balkan sapunika dados tlatah ingkang gadhah warni-warni lan bènten-bènten basa etnik, dados papan kanggé basa-basa Basa Slavik, Basa Romawi, lan Basa Turki, ugi Basa Yunani, Basa Albania, lan sanèsipun. Miturut sajarah kathah ètnik sanès kanthi basanipun piyambak-piyambak ingkang dumunung wonten ing tlatah punika, antawisipun:ètnik Celts, Illyrians, Romawi Kuno, Avars, Vlachs, lan rupi-rupi sukubangsa saking Jerman.

Kontroversi 
Tapel wates lèr Ujung Balkan limrahipun wujud garis ingkang katarik saking Kali Danube, Sava lan Kali Kupa, lan satunggiling segmen ingkang ngubungaken mata air Kali Kupa kaliyan Lempongan Kvarner.

Dhéfinisi sanès bab wates lèr Ujung Balkan sampun dipunusulaken::

 Garis Danube-Sava-Krka River-Postojnska Vrata-Vipava River-Soča)
 Garis Danube-Sava-Ljubljansko polje-Idrijca-Soča
 Garis Dniester-Timişoara-Zagreb-Triglav
 Garis Trieste-Odessa (Trieste-Odessa line) 
 Garis Lempongan Trieste-Ljubljana-Sava-Danube ()

Dhéfinisi Ingkang Umum Wayah Punika 
Wonten ing sadhéngah nagari Kilèn, nagari-nagari ingkang dipunanggep kalebet Balkan inggih punika:
 Albania
 Bosnia-Herzegovina
 Bulgaria
 Kroasia
 Montenegro
 Yunani
 Républik Makédonia Lor
 Serbia
 Turki, nanging namung Turki pérangan Éropa (kanthi tradhisional dipunwastani Rumelia utawi Thrace wétan)
Sawetawis nagari ingkang kala-kala ugi dipunlebetaken tlatah Balkan:
 Moldova
 Rumania
 Slowak

Negari-nagari Ingkang Magepokan 
Negari sanès ingkang boten kalebet Balkan naging caket lan gadhah prabawa ageng dhumateng geopulitik, budaya lan sajarah Balkan antawisipun:
 Ostenrik (pirsani : Ostenrik-Hungary, : Assassination in Sarajevo)
 Siprus (pirsani : Cyprus Dispute)
 Honggari (pirsani : Ostenrik-Hungary)
 Italia (see : Triest lan : History of the Venetian Republic)
 Ruslan (pirsani : History of Serbia)

Organisasi Regional 

Deleng uga Black Sea Regional organizations

Padunung lan komposisi miturut kebangsaan lan agami 
Bangsa-bangsa ingkang dumunung wonten ing Balkan mliginipun:
 Romanians (22 yuta)
 Greeks (10.5 yuta)
 Turks (10 yuta)
 Serbs (8.5 yuta)
 Bulgarians (6.6 yuta)
 Albanians (6 yuta)
 Croats (4.5 yuta)
 Bosniacs (2 yuta)
 Slovenes (2 yuta)
 Macedonians (1.3 yuta)
 Montenegrins (0.3 yuta)
 Sanèsipun (Roma,...)

Agami ingkang kathah dipunanut ing tlatah Balkan inggih punika (Eastern Orthodox lan Katulik) Kristen lan Islam. Eastern Orthodox minangka agami utami ing:
 Bulgaria (Bulgarian Orthodox Church)
 Greece (Church of Greece)
 Republic of Macedonia (Serbian Orthodox Church and uncanonical Macedonian Orthodox Church)
 Montenegro (Serbian Orthodox Church and uncanonical Montenegrin Orthodox Church)
 Romania (Romanian Orthodox Church)
 Serbia (Serbian Orthodox Church)

Roman Catholicism minangka agami utami ing:
 Croatia
 Slowén

Islam minangka agami utami ing:
 Albania
 Bosnia lan Herzegovina
 Turki

Réferènsi 
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 Komlos, John, ed. Economic Development in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Successor States: Essays 1990.
 Mazower, Mark, The Balkans: A Short History, 2000
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