The Balkans
Subtitle: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)
Publisher: Modern Library; Random House Publishing Group
Published: August 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780812966213
Subjects: History: World; History; History - General History; Eastern Europe - General; History / Europe / Eastern; 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.