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020			_a9780195158496
082			_a949.6 _bWAC
100			_aWachtel, Andrew
245		4	_aThe Balkans in World History
260			_bOxford University Press, USA _c2008
300			_a228 pages
500			_aEminent 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 people of the various civilizations that have nominally conquered the region.
650			_aHistory
942			_cENGLISH
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