咩係 balkans?

balkans---巴爾干
是歷史和地理名字被使用描述東南歐洲的區域。

2006-10-16 21:54:57 補充：
是歐洲南部三大半島最東端的一個，包含了斯洛維尼亞、克羅埃西亞、波士尼亞-赫塞哥維納、塞爾維亞與蒙特內哥.

The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of southeastern Europe. The region has a combined area of 728,000 km² and a population of around 53 million. The archaic Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula is the Peninsula of Haemus (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου). The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia.

The Balkans
The identity of the Balkans owes as much to its fragmented and often violent common history as to its mountainous geography. The region was perennially on the edge of great empires, its history dominated by wars, rebellions, invasions and clashes between empires, from the times of the Roman Empire to the latter-day Yugoslav wars.

Its fractiousness and tendency to splinter into rival political entities led to the coining of the term Balkanization (or balkanizing). The term Balkan commonly connotes a connection with violence, religious strife, ethnic clannishness and a sense of hinterland. The Balkans, as they are known today, have changed dramatically over the course of their history.

Although the former characterization of the Balkans is widely used and extremely common today, it is important to note that this characterization is also widely exaggerated and may be connected to historically negative connotations the Balkans have amongst Western European nations and political elites. Recent problems and conflicts in the Balkans have more to do with a complicated set of factors having to do with recent political and social divisions rather than the so-called age-old 'tendency' of the Balkan peoples to engage in war and conflicts. The tendency to portray the Balkans in this way has been studied extensively by Maria Todorova, whose book Imagining the Balkans deals with these issues.

It should be noted that the Southern and Eastern parts of the Balkans were relatively stable despite the turmoil in the Western part. Countries in the south such as Greece and in the east such as Bulgaria and Romania haven't experienced the horrors of the recent wars such as their Western counterparts, even if the latter two have suffered internal problems. Not withstanding that, Bulgaria and Romania are also set to join the European Union on January 1, 2007, and Greece is already a member of it.

巴爾幹半島是亞得里亞海與黑海之間的一個歐洲的半島。

巴爾幹各國為：

塞爾維亞
蒙特內哥羅
波士尼亞赫塞哥維納
克羅埃西亞
保加利亞
羅馬尼亞
阿爾巴尼亞
馬其頓
希臘
土耳其在歐洲的部分位於巴爾幹半島上

巴爾幹半島(人)的