• The Contact Group is the name for an informal grouping of great powers that have a significant interest in policy developments in the Balkans (an International...
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  • Examples of such groups include: OSCE Minsk Group Western Contact Group, Namibia, 1977 Contact Group (Balkans) (1994) International Contact Group (Basque politics)...
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    The Balkans (/ˈbɔːlkənz/ BAWL-kənz, /ˈbɒlkənz/ BOL-kənz), corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe...
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  • Origin of the Albanians (category Origin hypotheses of ethnic groups)
    representative of its own branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group, having its formative core in the Balkans after the Indo-European migrations in the region...
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    not only in the Balkans but also around the whole Eastern Mediterranean. In the late 6th century BC, the Persians invaded the Balkans, and then proceed...
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  • The Paleo-Balkan languages are a geographical grouping of various Indo-European languages that were spoken in the Balkans and surrounding areas in ancient...
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    languages of the Balkans. Several features are found across these languages though not all apply to every single language. The Balkan sprachbund is a prominent...
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    Balkan Roma, Balkaniko Romanes, or Balkan Gypsy is a specific non-Vlax dialect of the Romani language, spoken by groups within the Balkans, which include...
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    the Slavs had settled in all the Balkans and Peloponnese. The Byzantine Emperor Maurice (r. 582–602) in his Balkan campaigns (582–602) did not manage...
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  • Consumer organization - Consumers' Association - Consumers' Research - Contact Group (Balkans) - Contempt of Parliament - Contentious politics - Continental Europe...
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  • (2002): 25–46. Samson, Jim. Music in the Balkans. Brill, 2013. Kurkela, Vesa. "Music media in the Eastern Balkans: Privatised, deregulated, and neo‐traditional...
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    establishment of a Balkan Federation had been a recurrent suggestion of various political factions in the Balkans. The concept of a Balkan federation emerged...
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    in the Balkans, the protracted war had prevented the Ottomans from reinforcing their position in the Balkans as their relations with the Balkan states...
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    in the Balkans: An Introduction to Albanology and Balkan Studies]. Balassi Kiadó. ISBN 9635064721. Thomason, Sarah Grey (2001). Language Contact. Edinburgh...
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  • Albanoid (category Paleo-Balkan languages)
    a small group of people on the Adriatic coast, the Illyrioi. Albanoid and other Paleo-Balkan languages had their formative core in the Balkans after the...
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  • Proto-Albanian language (category Paleo-Balkan languages)
    diversification (before c. 600 CE). Albanoid and other Paleo-Balkan languages had their formative core in the Balkans after the Indo-European migrations in the region...
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  • in Washington, D.C. In 2011 Al Jazeera Media Network created Al Jazeera Balkans, a version of Al Jazeera in the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language(s) stationed...
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    Christian Roma in the Balkans. Garachi Shia Islam followers Roma people in Azerbaijan Gurbeti Muslim Roma in Northern Cyprus, Turkey and Balkans. Horahane or Xoraxai...
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    South Slavs (redirect from Balkan Slavs)
    Bulgarian. Balkan Slavic languages are part of a "Balkan sprachbund" with areal features shared with other non-Slavic languages in the Balkans.[citation...
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  • Slavic influence on Romanian (category Language contact)
    7th century, Slavic became the dominant language throughout most of the Balkans. Studies of the South Slavic languages revealed that Bulgarian and Serbian...
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    Gallic groups, originating from the various La Tène chiefdoms, began a southeastern movement into the Balkans from the 4th century BC. Although Gallic...
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    million native speakers. Albanian and other Paleo-Balkan languages had their formative core in the Balkans after the Indo-European migrations in the region...
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    ideology. Other Turkish groups include the Rumelian Turks (also referred to as Balkan Turks) historically located in the Balkans; Turkish Cypriots on the...
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    He is the founder and President of Balfin Group, an investment group based in the Western Balkans. The group encompasses over 50 companies and operates...
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    Friedman, Victor A. (2020). "The Balkans". In Evangelia Adamou, Yaron Matras (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact. Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics...
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    The Eastern Romance languages are a group of Romance languages. The group, also called the Balkan Romance or Daco-Romance languages, comprises the Romanian...
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    the Balkans: Marriage of Convenience or Mutual Attraction?. in R. Daskalov, D. Mishkova, Tch. Marinov, A. Vezenkov, Entangled Histories of the Balkans. Vol...
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  • different Slavic tribal groups of the future South Slavs via two routes: the west and east of the Carpathian Mountains. The western Balkans was settled with...
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  • the spread of nationalist movements in the Balkans. These sentiments were shared by the Kemalists. These groups decided to abandon the idea of Ittihad-i...
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    by language contact. However, language contact can also lead to cultural divisions. In some cases, two different language speaking groups can feel territorial...
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