Im not from Europe. Can someone explain what are the Balkans exactly and why there’s “beef” between them?
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After reading all the responses down here, I’m left wondering how this Balkan thing is so similar to the history of the peoples of the Iberian peninsula.
Yes, because Spain is not a country but a kingdom (Castile and Leon) that was forcing the other peoples of the peninsula to join by force (Galicians, Andalusians, Catalans…).
We, the Portuguese, always managed to escape their yoke, definitely after 1640, because Castile preferred to let Portugal fall and keep Catalonia (they also lost some important battles, but that’s for another day :-D)
Anyway, we have learned to be good neighbors, we have very good relations and, if you think about the villages near the border, it is easy to see that there are more things that unite us than those that separate us.
I really enjoyed reading all of you and I learned a lot, excellent “conversation”, cheers to you all 😉
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