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The Balkans in World History - Wachtel, Andrew Baruch
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Eminent historian Andrew Wachtel here depicts the Balkans as that borderland geographical space in which four of the world's greatest civilizations have overlapped in a sustained and meaningful way to produce a complex, dynamic, sometimes combustible, multi-layered local prvilization. It is the space in which the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, of Byzantium, of Ottoman Turkey, and of Roman Catholic Europe met, clashed and sometimes combined. The history of the Balkans is thus a history of creative borrowing by local ...

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The Balkans in World History 2008, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195338010

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The Balkans in World History 2008, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195158496

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