Balkans -

a region of Europe, covering roughly the area of the Balkan Peninsula. However, this name refers to the less ge ography and more to the historical-cultural community. With this approach, the membership of the Balkan country to determine the c ultural characteristics (eg, language belonging to the division of the Balkans, some elements of folk culture), social (eg, multiethnic, the coexistence of Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Islam) and historical (eg, belonging to the former Byzantine Empire , population of the Slavs in the sixth century AD, and above all experience of Ottoman rule).

Tagi: a of the Peninsula. geography country Balkans, coexistence