43+B.+Identify+the+sources+of+ethnic+and+religious+conflicts+in+the+following+nations+and+regions.+B.+the+Balkans

Editor: Sara (without an H) and Delaney

In Green(e) book pp. 454-5
 * 43 B. Identify the sources of ethnic and religious conflicts in the following nations and regions. B. the Balkans**:

The Balkans is a region that lies in Southeastern Europe. It is also known as the Balkan Peninsula. Countries that lie within the region include Greece, Macedonia and Yugoslavia. In the 1990s a civil war broke out between the government and rebel Serbians.

Balkan league ruled by sovereign Ottomans attacked the ottomans and terminated one of the longest ruling empires in history.

Since hundreds of years ago, ethnic conflicts have been a regular part of the Balkans after the Romans left in the late third century and Hungarian-German speaking people moved into their place. The end of communism in the Balkans caused great ethnic tension caused by splitting up ethnic groups

The area of the Balkans has always been an area of ethnic migration and fragmentation, partly because of it geography and partly because the area has been under the control of larger countries.

The Balkans have a very large Jewish community, but after the holocaust there numbers dwindled.

When communism ended is Yugoslavia the country decided to disintegrate and since the presidents had such a hard time agreeing war broke out and many civilians died.

After the end of communism in this region, it caused much ethnic tension, and later caused war to break out between between the new regions.

theirs a lot of wars going on right now in the Balkans because different ethnic groups are disagreeing with each other and causing disputes. In the 1990s, the region was gravely affected by the civil war between the former Yugoslavian republics.

There are more than one country in the Balkan area and since there are more ethnic religions there is a big dispute between them all.

All of the other countries intolerance the are around the Balkans are what lead to the conflicts.

The Cold War in the Balkans lasted from 1944-1949.

Ethnicity having been a perennial source of bloodshed in the Balkans.

In 1912 and 1913 two short wars were fought for possessions of the European Empire, of the Ottoman Empire.

At one time, Franjo Tudjman contemplated demanding the withdrawal of UN troops and a resumption of war in an effort to protect Croatian territory and bring the Balkan crisis to the forefront of world attention.

They had a new perspective on the Ethnic conflicts with the Balkans. Has always been under control of a larger empire causing it to be a common ethnic migration site.

The Serbs killed many Muslims, disagree on religion.

Western Christian, Eastern Orthodox and Islam are the religions in conflict.

The Balkans is a religious group that consists of Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey.

May 26, 1995 U.N. peacekeepers seized Bosnian Serbs seize U.N. peacekeeping troops, using them as human shields against NATO airstrikes. The war in Kosovo killed over 1 million people.

Yugoslavia was formed after WW1 The area has always been the site of ethnic migrations and fragmentation, partly due to its mountainous geography and partly because the Balkans have always been kept under the thumb of larger empires

Two wars took place in south eastern europe in 1912 amd 1913.

The yugoslavia kosovo conflict.

The current conflicts in the Balkan peninsula, which NATO airstrikes in Sebira and Kosovo have recently inflamed, are a hot topic of conversation around the world right now. The //Presbyterian Church (USA)// stated in 1999-APR that the main victims were the people of Kosovo who were murdered.

During the Cold War, most of the countries on the Balkans were governed by communist governments. Greece became the first battleground of the emerging Cold War and finally remained the only non-Soviet country in the region, after having successfully dealt with a wild guerrilla war unleashed by the local communist party backed by the neighboring communist countries (Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia) much in the same fashion as with Vietnam, causing a full scale civil war during 1944-49.

The Balakans have fought many wars with Kosovo over religion.

Communision During the cold War was in the Balkans which itself is conflict and etnic views were also some conflict around the area.

The Cold War in the Balkans only lasted five years.

The **Balkans** (often referred to as the **Balkan Peninsula**, although the two are not coterminous) is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern [|Europe]. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains , which run through the centre of [|Bulgaria] into eastern [|Serbia]. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of 55 million people

At the beginning of the war, Bosnian Muslims were mostly secular in their worldview and regarded themselves as Europeans first and foremost.

Part of the Cold War was in the Balkans but it had only lasted 5 years. And the Balkans fought many wars over Kosovo which resulted in the split of a Nation.

===="Religious identity has been present constantly in the antagonisms that have fragmented the Balkans for centuries, such as Muslims against Orthodox Christians." ====

There were two wars that took place in South-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913. The first, on October 8, 1912 and the second, on June 16, 1913.

Kosovo was the Balkans main enemy in a war over religion. Recently there have been conflicts with NATO as well.