The Balkan Peninsula

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The Balkan Peninsula

• 1918
• Balkanizeto break up into small, mutually
  hostile political units
• Communist post WWII
• Todayis divided into many small nations

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Romania

• Pop 23 million
• Ethnicity Romanian
• Eastern Orthodox
• Danube River
• NorthCarpathian Mountains
• Poverty

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Romania

• Communist post WWII
• Energy so scarce that TV aired only 2 hours per
  night
• Economic Depression
• American soft drink maker spent 150 million
• Created 25,000 small shops
• Entrepreneursgo-getter individuals who start and
  build a business
• Multiplier effectis the effect an investment has
  in multiplying related jobs throughout an economy

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Bulgaria

• Danube Plains and Balkan Mountains
• Garden of Eastern Europe
• Slavic
• Welcomed Soviet control after WWII

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Bulgaria

• Democratic
• Economic Depression
• Found markets in W. countries
• American, German, Dutch, British, and Swedish
  companies invested
• Millions to Black Sea resorts

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Albania

• Adriatic Sea
• Pop 3.5 million
• Post WWII Communist
• Poverty
• Billions in aid from foreign nations

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Other Balkan Nations

• Former Yugoslavia
• Broke up violently in 1991-1992
• the land of the southern Slavs
• 6 republics combined after WWII
• 24 ethnic groups
• Ethnic wars

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History

• Tito ruled with iron fist
• Broke up after his death
• Slobodan Milosevic
• Genocide in Bosnia, Kosovo War

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Other Balkan Nations

• Slovenia most wealthy
• Croatia tourism
• Both declared independence in 1991
• Others followed
• Conflicts in and between nations
• Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict
• Muslims, Croats, and Serbians
• 250,000 people died

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Serbia and Montenegro

• 6.5 of the 10 million are Serbs
• Kosovo declared independence in Feb. 2008
• Danube
• Farming

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Croatia

• Pop 5 million
• ¾ Croat, ¼ Serb
• Slavic
• Serbs Eastern Orthodox
• Croats Roman Catholic
• Tourism on Adriatic

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Slovenia

• Pop 2 million
• Julian Alps
• Solid industry base

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Bosnia-Herzegovina

• Serbs, Croats, and Muslims
• Civil war
• Natural Resources

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Macedonia

• Quiet
• Poorest
• Conflict with Greece
• Albanian Muslims