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It was part of the Roman „ via militaris “ ( connecting the central Balkans with the Adriatic ) from Niš, the town was known as Hammeum, or Hameo ; the first known name of the settlement.

The mountains in the northeast are an extension of the alpine system that runs eastward from the Balkans through southern Turkey, northern Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, eventually reaching the Himalayas.

It was conquered in 10th century by the Turks, who occupied the plains forcing the Slavs into the mountains ( a historical inaccuracy, since the Balkans were conquered in 14th century ).

These include the entire Arctic, as well as the mountains of Scandinavia, the Alps, Carpathian Mountains, Balkans, Caucasus and in isolated locations elsewhere.

In ancient geographical sources, Moesia was bounded to the south by the Haemus ( Balkans ) and Scardus ( Šar ) mountains, to the west by the Drinus ( Drina ) river, on the north by the Donaris ( Danube ) and on the east by the Euxine ( Black Sea ).

In the Balkans, the Sarakatsani, Aromanians and Yörüks traditionally spent summer months in the mountains and returned to lower plains in the winter.

The mountains are famous for the largest coniferous woods in the Balkans, their mild relief and the lush vegetation in the western parts as well as the abundance of birds of prey in the eastern areas.

The chamois, ( Rupicapra rupicapra ), is a goat-antelope species native to mountains in Europe, including the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, the European Alps, the Tatra Mountains, the Balkans, parts of Turkey, and the Caucasus.

There are a small number of isolated breeding records from south of the main range, in the mountains of Spain, Italy, and the northern Balkans.

The kaval is primarily associated with mountain shepherds throughout the Balkans and Anatolia and in the book Kaval: Traditional Folk Melodies for Balkan & Anatolian Folk Flute, musician Pat MacSwyney suggest that the kaval spread with the Yoruks from the Taurus mountains of southern Anatolia into the southern Balkans of southeast Europe.

Blagoevgrad Province includes the mountains, or parts of, Rila ( highest point of the Balkans — Musala summit, 2925 m ), Pirin ( highest point — Vihren summit, 2914 m ), the Rhodopes, Slavyanka, Belasitsa, Vlahina, Maleshevo, Ograzhden and Stargach.

The genus Soldanella, commonly known in English as snowbell, includes about 15 species of flowering plants native to European mountains, from the Pyrenees, the Apennines, the Alps, the Carpathians and the Balkans.

Sorbus chamaemespilus ( False Medlar or Dwarf Whitebeam ) is a species of Sorbus native to the mountains of central and southern Europe, from the Pyrenees east through the Alps to the Carpathians and the Balkans, growing at altitudes of up to 2500 m.

Morlachs was an ethnonym used for a population of shepherds that lived in the Dinaric Alps ( western Balkans in modern use ), seasonally migrating in search for better pastures for their sheep flocks ( between mountains, in the summertime, and the sea shores, in the wintertime ).

This typically mountain species prefers flowery meadows and pastures of the continental European mountains, in Spain, Scandinavia and Central Europe, in the Balkans up to northern Greece and in the Alps between Italy and France.

Sweet William is a herb biennial or short-lived perennial plant native to the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans, with a variety disjunct in northeastern China, Korea, and southeasternmost Russia.

It is common in central and southeastern Europe, such as in low mountain ranges like the Jura and Balkans, and up to an altitude of 2, 600 m. It is also to be found in mountainous regions ranging from the high Atlas of Morocco to the mountains of Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

Bulgaria, often dubbed " Prussia of the Balkans ", was militarily the most powerful of the four states, with a large, well-trained and well-equipped army.

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.

Immigrants often come from Central America, Southeast Asia and the Philippines, the Middle East and Somalia, the Balkans, the Caribbean islands ( esp.

* In Austria, there is a remnant population around Salzburg Zoo, and vagrants from the Balkans are often seen.

" Although the play is set in Illyria in the Balkans Shakespeare often uses local London references.

Nowadays, the term Vlach is more often used to refer to the Romanized populations of the Balkans who speak Daco-Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian and Megleno-Romanian.

*" War in the Balkans ": largely inappropriate, partly because the war affected not only the Western Balkans but also because certain areas which saw fighting ( e. g., most of Slovenia, the Croatian land of Slavonia ) are often seen as belonging to Central Europe and not the Balkans.

* As the empire weakened militarily, it would inevitably lose control through foreign victories ( Russia took large chunks of territory ; the Christian empires helped ever more parts of the Balkans secede, often after a vassalic stage, such as the hospodars ) but also see real control over some of its ( mainly remote ) provinces slip away to a state of little more than formal sovereignty over tributary, de facto autonomous states.

Using the " cover " of his job as chief of overseas sales at Bosch, between 1937 and 1938, Goerdeler often travelled abroad, mostly to France, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Balkans, the Middle East and Canada, to warn anyone who would listen about what he considered to be the aggressive and dangerous foreign policy of Nazi Germany.

In the rest of the Balkans, the top layer is often a custard.

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ( often called the Aristotelian University or University of Thessaloniki ) is the largest Greek university, and the largest university in the Balkans.

In Europe including the Balkans, it tends to be less common in Slavic speaking areas, where R1a is often the most common haplogroup.

The distinct identity and fragmentation of the Balkans owes much to its common and often violent history and to its very mountainous geography.

The most common type of humour is Black Humour and Serbian jokes are often imitated by other peoples from the Balkans, often with a twist.

Throughout the Central Asia and Eastern Slavic region ( part of Balkans ), the name qaraqurt is most often applied.

Since the area has been referred to as the Balkans, notable conflicts have included the following

Rumelia ( English: Roumelia ; Turkish: Rumeli ; Albanian: Rumelia ;, Romylía, or Ρούμελη, Roúmeli ; Bosnian, Serbian and ;, Rumeliya ) was a historical term describing the area now referred to as the Balkans or the Balkan Peninsula when it was occupied by the Ottoman Empire.

Originally, nation-building referred to the efforts of newly-independent nations, notably the nations of Africa but also in the Balkans, to reshape territories that had been carved out by colonial powers or Empires without regard to ethnic, religious, or other boundaries.

Ohrid is notable for having once had 365 churches, one for each day of the year and has been referred to as a " Jerusalem ( of the Balkans )".

He referred to his own musical style as turbo folk, long before the term would obtain grave social connotations and come to symbolize moral and cultural decline throughout the Balkans during the wars of the 1990s.

Starting with the 2001 novel Pashazade and continuing with Effendi ( 2002 ) and Felaheen ( 2003 ), the point of divergence is in 1915, with Woodrow Wilson brokering an earlier peace so that World War I never expanded outside of the Balkans ; the books are set in a liberal Islamic Ottoman North Africa in the 21st century, mainly centering on Alexandria ( referred to as El Iskandriyah ).

In some parts of the Balkans the doina is referred to as scaros / scaru.

In Mike Karadjis ' 2000 book Bosnia, Kosova, and the West, Chossudovsky is referred to as a " pro-Milošević leftist ", a " noted left apologist for the Milošević regime ", as well as accused of " systematically distorting events in Albania and the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s ".