They are the only Serbian ( and ex-Yugoslav ) club to have ever won the European Cup, having done in 1991, and the only team from the Balkans and Eastern Europe to have ever won the Intercontinental Cup, which it won also in 1991.

Still, Partizan became the first club from the Balkans and Eastern Europe who reached the European Cup final.

In 1970 they won the prestigious Balkans Cup by overcoming PFC Beroe Stara Zagora in the final.

* Balkans Cup: 1

Balkans Cup

* Balkans Cup ( 1 ): 1978

* Balkans Cup runner-up ( 1 ): 1979-80

Balkans Cup

Balkans Cup:

See the page for Sarıyer G. K., 1992 Balkans Cup Winner.

Of these, Fenerbahçe's European triumph came in the now defunct 1967 Balkans Cup.

: For the squad version see, Balkans Cup.

In 1948 the Balkans Cup expanded to 7 teams with Poland and Czechoslovakia entering the tournament.

The club has never won the National Championship or the Greek Cup, but it has won lower division titles throughout its history and represented the Greek football league in the 1978-9 and 1993-4 Balkans Cup tournaments.

The club has had noticeable success to date, particularly considering its comparative status, and has won one Greek Cup and one Balkans Cup, while they have competed several times in UEFA competitions.

Internationally the club has reached one Cup Winners ' Cup quarter-finals and has won the Balkans Cup once.

Balkans Cup:

A five years later, in 1972, the team became winner of the Balkans Cup for the first time, playing against Yugoslavian Velež Mostar after two spectacular final matches to take the cup.

In 1961, a Balkans Cup for football clubs from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey, and Yugoslavia was introduced.

In 1966, the stadium hosted an athletic championship for the Balkans.

* 1346 – Dušan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans.

* 193 – Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum ( in the Balkans ).

It remained in Byzantine hands during the period of crisis in the 7th – 8th centuries, when most of the Balkans and the Greek mainland were overrun by Slavic invasions.

* Prehistoric period – occurred between the Slavonic migration to eastern Balkans and the mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia in the 860s.

Boundaries on the Balkans after the First and the Second Balkan War ( 1912 – 1913 )

Over the winter of 284 – 85, Diocletian advanced west across the Balkans.

In the years 267 – 269, Goths and other barbarians invaded the Balkans in great numbers.

Post – World War I Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Near East had borders carved out by the Allies that left many of the new states in that region unsatisfied due to minority populations and conflicting historical claims.

* 1878 – League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.

* 1878 – Treaty of Berlin: the European powers redraw the map of the Balkans.

* 1875 – Outbreak of the Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman rule, which would last until 1878 and have far-reaching implications throughout the Balkans

Despite the often fierce rivalry with the SS, the Foreign Office played a key role in arranging the deportations of Jews to the death camps from France ( 1942 – 44 ), Hungary ( 1944 – 45 ), Slovakia, Italy ( after 1943 ), and the Balkans.

Later in the 20th century, after the break-up of the Soviet Union, leaders appealed to ancient ethnic feuds or tensions that ignited conflict between the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, as well Bosnians, Montenegrins and Macedonians, eventually breaking up the long collaboration of peoples and ethnic cleansing was carried out in the Balkans, resulting in the destruction of the formerly communist republic and produced the civil wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992 – 95, resulted in mass population displacements and segregation that radically altered what was once a highly diverse and intermixed ethnic makeup of the region.

Certainly cultures which appeared at Franchthi Cave in the Aegean and Lepenski Vir in the Balkans, and the Murzak-Koba ( 9100 – 8000 BCE ) and Grebenki ( 8500 – 7000 BCE ) cultures of the Ukrainian steppe, all displayed these adaptations.

The Serbian revolution ( 1804 – 1815 ) marked the beginning of an era of national awakening in the Balkans during the Eastern Question.

* 382 – Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.

Roger Collins believes the Visigoths were a creation of the Gothic War of 376 – 382 and began as a collection of foederati ( Wolfram's " federate armies ") under Alaric I in the eastern Balkans, composed of largely Tervingi with Greuthungian and other barbarian contingents.

* February 13 – A United Nations tribunal on human rights violations in the Balkans charges 21 Bosnian Serb commanders with genocide and crimes against humanity.

* March 3 – The Treaty of Bucharest ends the Serbo-Bulgarian War in the Balkans.

* Winter – Diocletianus advanced with his army across the Balkans.

* April 9 – Lucius Septimius Severus is proclaimed Emperor by his troops in Illyricum ( Balkans ).

Recent operations have included patrolling the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia ( since 2009 ), the war in Afghanistan ( since 2005 ), intervention in East-Timor ( 1999 – 2004 ), in Guinea-Bissau ( 1990, 1998 and 1999 ), Angola ( 1992 ) and ongoing peacekeeping responsibilities in the Balkans and Lebanon.

Valens ' army may have included troops from any of three Roman field armies: the Army of Thrace, based in the eastern Balkans, but which may have sustained heavy losses in 376 – 377, the 1st Army in the Emperor's Presence, and the 2nd Army in the Emperor's Presence, both based at Constantinople in peacetime but committed to the Persian frontier in 376 and sent west in 377 – 378.