The Balkans
Subtitle: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)
Series: Modern Library Chronicles
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: November 14, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780679640875
Subjects: History - General History; History: World; Eastern Europe - General; History / Europe / Eastern; History; Balkan Peninsula
First sentence: Over millions of years, the play of the earth's tectonic plates pushed up a series of mountain ranges in the Mediterranean along the geological frontier between Europe and Africa.