This is not to negate the role played by Islam and the Ottoman past. Erdogan’s trip to the Muslim-majority area of Sandzak on October 11 is asserting his role as leader of a community ...

Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia ...

Why the Balkans should be your next summer destination. The final frontier of Europe is this southeastern peninsula, where travellers can find Roman palaces, old Ottoman quarters, aquamarine bays ...

But in Kosovo, the Ottomans would deliver another decisive blow, cementing their dominance over the Balkans. This episode explores the tactics, diplomacy, and consequences of one of the last major ...

Gerolymatos features the wars that allowed the Ottoman Empire to ascend in the Balkans and then, 400 years later, expire. He uses those wars to expose history's abuse of Greeks, Serbs, and Turks, as ...

Our Balkan correspondent roves wider. In Tirana he asks what Turkey's neo-Ottoman foreign policy means for the western Balkans | Europe ...

An archive in Serbia holds rare images of the war that freed the Balkans from Ottoman rule 110 years ago. The photographer who made the striking pictures disappeared without a trace.

The Balkans: the crossroads ... Austrian, and Ottoman Empires, America and the USSR; and now China. In 2013, China’s President Xi Jinping announced the “Belt and Road Initiative” ...

Mr. Gerolymatos discussed his book, [The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution and Retribution from the Ottoman Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond,] published by Basic Books. It's a history of ...

Most of the Balkans became independent in the 19th century. The nation-state of Greece is only 201 years old and didn’t include most historically Greek regions at its formation. I’m not yet 40 years ...

Five hundred years of Ottoman rule have had a noticeable impact on the food, which is more varied than most other Western Balkan cuisines and less averse to spice. Ajvar is a case in point.