Tag: Balkans

Free Download Ellias Aghili Dehnavi, Seyed Mohammad Ardam, "Balkans’ Trinity: The Role of the United States in the Relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Balkan Countries"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3347318382, 3347318390 | EPUB | pages: 86 | 1.0 mb
The Balkans, also known as the Balkan peninsula are a geographic area in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea in the east, the Adriatic Sea and the Greek Sea in the west, the Mediterranean Sea in the south, and by the Dinaric Alps and Transylvanian Alps in the north. The Balkans comprise the areas of Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Republic of Northern Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Turkey (the European part). Its total area is 728,000 km2 and the population is about 60, 00,000. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that are extended from central Bulgaria to the eastern region of Serbia. The great importance of this region in terms of geopolitical, geo-economic, and geostrategic issues has resulted in the regional and supra-regional great powers being interested in this part of Europe and they are making efforts to make an influence in the region in a way that enjoy the interests of this area. The Islamic Republic of Iran, due to the history of relations with the Balkans, is trying to make an influence in the region and establish a position for itself. The United States (US) as its traditional rival, however, has made efforts to apply its influence in the countries located in the region and prevent the establishment of relations between the Balkan countries and the Islamic Republic of Iran. At the same time, the US is making use of its prominent foreign policy tool (i.e. sanctions) to avert the Islamic Republic of Iran’s influence in the Balkans as well as preventing the cooperation between the Balkans with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Thereby, in this book, we discuss the economic, political, and cultural relations of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the Balkan countries, in addition, we address the effects of U.S. sanctions on the economic, political, and cultural relations of the countries located in this region with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Free Download Bob Carruthers, "Blitzkrieg in the Balkans and Greece 1941"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1781581223, 1781581231 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 6.9 mb
The German campaigns in the Balkans, Greece and the seizure of Crete are detailed in this long neglected account of the campaign as described from the German point of view. Out of print since the fifties, this new edition is edited and introduced by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers. Based mainly on original German records and post-war military writings by veterans including Dr. Helmut Greiner, General Burkharth Mueller-Hillebrand, and General Hans von Greiffenberg, this fascinating account encompasses the lessons and conclusions drawn from the same German sources. The work of preparing this study in English, which consisted of translating basic German records and manuscripts, performing additional research, expanding and then rewriting the narratives with an eye for continuity and factual data, was done chiefly by Mr. George E. Blau of the Foreign Studies Branch, Special Studies Division, Office of the Chief of Military History. In the process of presenting the material, every effort has been made to give a balanced account of German strategy and operations in the Balkans during the spring of 1941.

Free Download Robert D. Kaplan, "Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus"
English | 2001 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0375705767, 0375502726 | EPUB | 3,0 mb
Eastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan’s first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future.

Free Download Small Water Bodies of the Western Balkans by Vladimir Pešić
English | EPUB | 2022 | 449 Pages | ISBN : 3030864774 | 105.8 MB
The small water bodies such as headwater streams, springs, ditches, small lakes, and ponds are critical to maintaining freshwater biodiversity.

Free Download Vlada Stanković, "The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453 "
English | ISBN: 1498513255 | 2016 | 248 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book represents the first attempt to analyze historical and cultural developments in late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe as a set of mutually intertwined regional histories, burdened by the strong dichotomy between the almighty center-Constantinople-and the periphery that is rarely visible in both contemporary sources and modern scholarship. This mosaic of original studies is devoted to various regions of the Byzantine Balkans and their historical, artistic, and ideological idiosyncrasies, mirroring the complex character and composite and fragmented structure of this vast region. The focal points of the book are the two captures of Constantinople in 1204 and 1453, and the contributors analyze the significance of these catastrophic events on the political destiny of medieval Balkan societies, the mechanisms of adapting to the new political order, and the ever-present interconnectedness of a lower, regional elite across southeastern Europe that had remained strong even after the Ottoman conquest.

Free Download Edited by Marzena Żakowska, "Social Security in the Balkans – Volume 3 An Overview of Social Policy in Serbia and Kosovo "
English | ISBN: 9004499989 | 2022 | 296 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The book presents a multifaceted analysis of the social security system in the Balkan states and offers a comprehensive overview and recommendations on social problems in the region.

Free Download Edited by Marzena Żakowska, "Social Security in the Balkans – Volume 2 An Overview of Social Policy in the Republics of North Macedonia and Montenegr"
English | ISBN: 9004306889 | 2022 | 244 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The book presents a multifaceted analysis of the social security system in the Balkan states and offers a comprehensive overview and recommendations on social problems in the region.

Free Download Miranda Vickers, "The Albanian Question: Reshaping the Balkans"
English | 2007 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1860649742, 1848850956 | PDF | 5,2 mb
In 1997 the previously little-known and isolated Balkan country of Albania exploded as the first armed uprising in mainland Europe since the 1920s brought the country to the brink of civil war. As the violence spread first to neighbouring Kosovo, then to south-east Serbia and finally to former Yugoslav Macedonia, the Albanian question increasingly took center stage in world affairs. This book examines Albania’s place in the Balkans, a region which had been forced simultaneously to come to terms with the realities of a post-Communist world and the threat of Slobodan Milosevic’s ""Greater Serbia"" project.

Free Download Small Water Bodies of the Western Balkans by Vladimir Pešić
English | EPUB | 2022 | 449 Pages | ISBN : 3030864774 | 105.8 MB
The small water bodies such as headwater streams, springs, ditches, small lakes, and ponds are critical to maintaining freshwater biodiversity.