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unusual facts about Balkan



A.E.P. Olympias Patras

The most famous athlete of the department was Nikos Angelopoulos, who achieved victory in the Balkan Track And Field Games in Sofia, in 1980, in the men's 200m with a record time of 20.71.

Ambar

Hambar, a Balkan or Central European building for drying maize

Balkandji

As the Stara Planina mountain range used to be called “The Balkan” in Bulgaria, it also means “a man from the mountains”, mainly referring to the revolutionaries and people that were hiding in Stara Planina while Bulgaria was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, hence a brave and patriotic young man.

Barbarea balcana

Barbarea balcana (also known as Balkan yellow rocket) is a perennial herb of the genus Barbarea from the family Brassicaceae / Cruciferae that grows in wet spring areas.

Bulgarian Soft Drink Association

Products of Bulgarian companies, manufacturers of soft drinks, are sold in USA, UK, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Malta, and Cyprus, all Balkan countries, in Russia, Ukraine, Africa, Middle East, and Latin America.

Bulgarians in Germany

In the 16th century, Bulgarian Orthodox clerics were known to have been in contact with the German Lutherans and by the 18th century Bulgarian merchants in Leipzig were distinguished from other Balkan Christian merchants.

Douglas Haskell

The son of American missionaries, Haskell was born in the Ottoman Empire, in the Balkan city of Monastir, now Bitola in the Republic of Macedonia.

Draslajca

After the Balkan Wars all of the population of the neighbouring village of Livada began to migrate to the village.

Eastern Romance substratum

In addition to vocabulary items, some other features of Eastern Romance, such as phonological features and elements of grammar (see Balkan sprachbund) may also be from Paleo-Balkan languages.

Edirne event

“Very quickly, by 1703, these lifetime tax farms had spread and came into wide use in the Balkan, Anatolian, and Arab provinces alike” (Ottoman Empire 1700-1922 48).

Emena Thes

Originally, Proto Thema reported that the music video would be shot in the week following the Balkan Music Awards, held on 16 May 2010, where Rouvas won the award for Best Balkan Song from Greece for his previous single, and, according to the newspaper, had planned to perform the song at the ceremony in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Erlet Shaqe

After fall of Pashalik of Yanina his relatives and family moved to Vithkuq and Lubonja,where they had land properties.In 1900 the revolution against Ottoman Empire to gain Independence for all the land of Epirus and Albania was decisive for all the people who lived in this part of Balkan during this time.

Ernő Gereben

In 1947, he won team gold medal and individual silver medal at sixth board in the 2nd Balkan Games in Sofia.

Etrek

Gyzyletrek, a town in Balkan Province, Turkmenistan, capital of Etrek District

Haemus Mountains

Haemus Mons was an ancient Greek name for the Balkan mountains

İzmir Clock Tower

In the former Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in present-day Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin towns such as Belgrade, Prijepolje, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Gradačac and Stara Varoš, similar Ottoman era clock towers still exist and are called Sahat Kula (derived from the Turkish words Saat Kulesi, meaning Clock Tower.)

İzmit Clock Tower

In the former Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in present-day Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin towns such as Belgrade, Prijepolje, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Gradačac and Stara Varoš, similar Ottoman era clock towers are still named Sahat Kula (deriving from the Turkish words Saat Kulesi, meaning Clock Tower.)

Kidarites

In Europe the Kidarites became known as the Avars, first mentioned in Balkan province of Turkmenistan attacking the Sabirs in 460 AD and who the following century (in 557) entered Europe under the leadership of Kandik.

Kiril Džajkovski

Subsequently, he went on to play with one of the most famous Macedonian bands Leb i sol, recording two albums and touring extensively around the Balkans and the rest of Europe.

Krsta Cicvarić

However, after the Belgrade Offensive of 1944 in World War II, the Yugoslav communists accused him of being the co-editor of the collaborationist newspaper Balkan.

La Mano Ajena

In January, 2009, they became the first and only Latin American band to participate in the Küstendorf Film and Music Festival in Serbia, created by the twice Palm d’Or winner in Cannes and world famous filmmaker Emir Kusturica, whose band The No Smoking Orchestra is the main and most important reference concerning Balkan and Gypsy music in the world.

Ludwig Thallóczy

Because of his mentors Gyula Andrássy and especially Benjamin Kallay he became inevitable counselor in all Balkan affairs even to the emperor Franz Joseph himself, to ministers and to the government of the empire.

Macedon, New York

The Town of Macedon is named after the birthplace of Alexander the Great, the Republic of Macedonia (Located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe).

Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps

Opalchenie Peak in Vinson Massif, Antarctica is named after the Bulgarian Volunteer Force in the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War and the Macedonian-Adrianople Volunteer Force in the 1912-1913 Balkan Wars.

Milan Radonjić

Milan Radonjić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Радоњић), born on 11 April 1973 in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia, is a known TV personality, comedian, satirist and tarot card reader in the Balkan region.

Monastir Offensive

On 4 of October the Allies attacked with the French and Russians in the direction of Monastir - Kenali, the Serbian First and Third Army in along the Kenali - Cherna Loop line, the Serbian Second Army against the Third Balkan Division - in the direction of Dobro Pole.

Montenegrin Orthodox Church

In that vein they claim that in pre-Yugoslavia times, the independence of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church has been confirmed as late as 1905, by one of the best-known and well-traveled Balkan experts from the early 20th century, Mary Edith Durham.

Othmar Reiser

Reiser was curator of the Zemaljski Muzej of Sarajevo, where it is possible to see his collection of birds of the Balkan Peninsula (about 10,000 specimens).

Overgas

In partnership with the British-based JKX Oil & Gas and with the Bulgaria-based Balkan Explorers the company search for oil and gas near the Provadia.

Owen Rutter

He edited the Balkan News which included, under the pseudonym "Klip-Klip", his parody of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha in serial form.

Piana degli Albanesi

The inhabitants are the descendants of Albanian families, including nobles and relatives of Skanderbeg, that settled in Southern Italy during the Ottoman Turkish conquest of the Balkans.

Pirdop

It is surrounded by the Balkan Range (also known as the Stara Planina) to the north, Sredna Gora Mountain to the south, and Koznitsa and Galabets saddles to the east and west, respectively.

Pirdop Municipality

The territory of the municipality is crossed by main road I-6 (Sofia - Bourgas), which is a part of the Republican road network, as well as by the Sub-Balkan railway line to Bourgas.

Pope Hormisdas

Meanwhile Hormisdas reported to Avitus of Vienne that an additional number of Balkan bishops had entered into relations with Rome, and Bishop John of Nicopolis, who was also the archbishop of Epirus, had broken communion with Constantinople and resumed it with Rome.

Powder keg of Europe

The "Powder keg of Europe", sometimes alternately known as the "Balkan Powder Keg", refers to the Balkans in the early part of the 20th century preceding World War I.

R. graveolens

Ruta graveolens, the common rue or herb-of-grace, a flowering plant species native to the Balkan Peninsula

Robert Edward Crozier Long

The stewing Balkan cauldron erupted again during late June, 1914, with the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, at Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Serbian epic poetry

Topics include: Balkan Wars of the 90s, 1999 Nato Bombing of Serbia, and the Hague Tribunal.

Sighet prison

Victor Papacostea, historian, founder of the Institute for Balkan Studies in Bucharest, former Under-secretary at the Ministry of Education in the Constantin Sănătescu and Nicolae Rădescu cabinets

Skenderija

It was a very popular place among young people, and big stars of Balkan pop-music, like Dino Merlin, had started their career here.

Small Enterprise Assistance Funds

Oliver Kosturanov, Macedonia
He is SEAF’s Director General for Macedonia, actively involved in managing the SEAF Macedonia Fund, the Small Investment Fund (SIF), the Micro Investment Fund (MIF) and SEAF South Balkan Fund’s activities in Macedonia.

Starčevo site

The culture of Starčevo is connected with other cites from Balkan and middle Europe where they use the term Starčevo-Keres-Kris culture in Hungary and Romania cites to symbolize the union of three close culture: culture of Starčevo, culture of Kereska and culture of Kris all of them located on the region of today southeast Hungary, Serbia and Romania.

Stemmer fra Balkan

Stemmer fra Balkan ("Figures in the Balkans") is a documentary book written by Jo Nesbø and Espen Søbye.

Syringa vulgaris

--no italics for hybrid symbol ×-->, the finer, smaller "Persian lilac", now considered a natural hybrid — were introduced into European gardens at the end of the sixteenth century, from Ottoman gardens, not through botanists exploring the Balkan habitats of S. vulgaris.

The Assassination Bureau

Dragomiloff and Miss Winter uncover the plot — dropping a bomb from a Zeppelin airship on to the castle in Ruthenia where the kings, emperors and presidents of Europe are trying to avoid a possible war caused by the death of a Balkan prince who was killed by a bomb intended for Dragomiloff.

Toni Storaro

Many of his songs have been covered by other Balkan artists, most notably by Serbian Dragana Mirković and Macedonian Toše Proeski and others.

Tuna Kiremitci

In 1997 he shared the "Erguvan Balkan Poetry Award with the Bosnian poet Izet Sarajlić.

Vesper Holly

She is a young high-society orphan from Philadelphia, the daughter of an eccentric wealthy archaeologist who disappeared while on an expedition to the Balkan state of Illyria.


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