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