10 Facts About Balkan peninsula

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Balkans, known as the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographic area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.

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The Balkan Peninsula is bordered by the Adriatic Sea in the northwest, the Ionian Sea in the southwest, the Aegean Sea in the south, the Turkish Straits in the east, and the Black Sea in the northeast.

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Concept of the Balkan Peninsula was created by the German geographer August Zeune in 1808, who mistakenly considered the Balkan Mountains the dominant mountain system of Southeast Europe spanning from the Adriatic Sea to the Black Sea.

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4.

The term Balkan Peninsula was a synonym for Rumelia in the 19th century, the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

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5.

From classical antiquity through the Middle Ages, the Balkan peninsula Mountains were called by the local Thracian name Haemus.

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The first attested time the name "Balkan peninsula" was used in the West for the mountain range in Bulgaria was in a letter sent in 1490 to Pope Innocent VIII by Buonaccorsi Callimaco, an Italian humanist, writer and diplomat.

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The term Balkan Peninsula was a synonym for European Turkey, the political borders of former Ottoman Empire provinces.

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8.

The main ranges are the Balkan peninsula Mountains, running from the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria to the border with Serbia, the Rila-Rhodope massif in southern Bulgaria, the Dinaric Alps in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro, the Korab-Sar mountains which spreads from Kosovo to Albania and North Macedonia, and the Pindus range, spanning from southern Albania into central Greece and the Albanian Alps, and the Alps at the northwestern border.

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Balkan peninsula region was the first area in Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era.

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10.

Balkan peninsula region today is a very diverse ethnolinguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic and Romance languages, as well as Albanian, Greek, Turkish, Hungarian and others.

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