wars of the Balkan Peninsula
Subtitle: their medieval origins
By: Alexandru Madgearu ; Martin Gordon, consulting editor.
Contributors: Gordon, Martin.; Madgearu, Alexandru.
Edition: [Rev. ed.].
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780810858466
Subjects: Balkan Peninsula -- History; Balkan Peninsula -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
Notes: Rev. of: Originea medievală a focarelor de conflict din Peninsula Balcanică by Corint Publishing House in Romania in 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-217) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Past; title: The ethnic aspects; title: The slavization of the Balkan Peninsula; title: The expansion of the Albanians; title: The Vlachs (Aromanians) a people without state; title: Deportations and colonizations made by the Byzantine and Ottoman empires; title: The political aspects; title: The downfall and recovery of the Byzantine domination and the rise of Bulgaria; title: The small Slavic states from the central and western Balkans; title: The Byzantine offensive (ninth-eleventh centuries); title: Pax Byzantina and the centrifugal trends in the eleventh-twelfth centuries; title: The inheritors of the Byzantine imperialism; title: The rise and the breaking up of great Serbia; title: The Ottoman conquest; title: Pax Ottomana; title: The religious aspects; title: The confrontation between Rome and Constantinople in the Balkans; title: The spreading of Islam in the Balkans: a new differentiation; title: The present. historical propaganda and the Balkan nationalist ideologies; title: Theories of ethnogenesis with political implications; title: The Greeks; title: The Albanians; title: The Bulgarians; title: The Serbs and the Croats; title: The Vlachs (Aromanians); title: The legitimation of expansionism by the abuse of history; title: Kosovo- Serbian or Albanian?; title: The historical Macedonia - the apple of discord among Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia.