Balkan Ghosts (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Robert D. Kaplan
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Time of Work: The 1980’s and early 1990’s
- Setting: Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, and the states of the former Yugoslavia
- Principal Characters: Robert D. Kaplan, Guillermo Angelov, Wilfred Burchett, Alojzije Stepinac, Andreas Papandreou
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, Current affairs
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Communism or communists, World War II, Muslims, 1990’s, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Greece or Greek people, Yugoslavia or Yugoslavians
- Locales: Greece, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania
The region of southeastern Europe known as the Balkans returned with a vengeance to newspaper readers’ awareness during the early 1990’s. At the beginning of the twentieth century, with bitter ethnic wars in 1912 and 1913, the region had spawned a term, “balkanization,” that entered regular English usage. One Webster’s dictionary defines the verb “to Balkanize” as “to break up into small, mutually hostile political units, as the Balkan States after World War I.” Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, was the site of the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz...
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