What were the Balkan Wars? The Balkan Wars were two separate wars, fought in rapid succession, in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro formed the Balkan ...

First of all, the proletariat ... It has only intensified the added confusion resulting from the two unfinished Balkan Wars, unfinished because of the complete temporary exhaustion of the nations ...

While most Europeans viewed the region as a cultural and economic backwater, the Balkans played an outsized role in continental diplomacy, as Europe’s Great Powers vied for favor by selling arms ...

George Papanicolaou, the Greek doctor who invented the "Pap smear" in 1928, has saved the lives of countless women.

While the first Gulf War was conducted under the United Nations banner, the US-led military intervention against Serbia in 1999 had no such fig leaf. The excuse for NATO’s war in the Balkans ...

This course examines the history of the Balkans in the second half of the Twentieth century and on the threshold of the Twenty First century ... broader themes and interpretations of the Cold War and ...

Croatian officer Milan Levar was one of the few who was ready to testify about war crimes committed by ... paid for it with his life. In the first of our Balkan Cold Cases series, BIRN examines ...