where are the balkans
to understand who the peoples of the balkans are one must first know which countries make up the balkans the countries that make up the balkans today include greece albania macedonia bulgaria romania rump yugoslavia serbia and montenegro and bosnia herzegovina referred to as bosnia throughout this texthe term balkans is a geographical designation for the southeastern peninsula of the european continent europe has many regions of course and has two other southern peninsulas the iberian peninsula spain and portugal and the italian peninsula